You’re a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.
It is November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out.
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!
Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008
"Fight, fight, fight!" - President Donald J. Trump
Too Tall!!! Bravo Zulu
God, what a hero! Surely this man is reaping his rewards in Heaven!
Rick Rescorla, a Cornishman veteran of Ia Drang, later shepherded hundreds of World Trade Center employees to safety on 9/11. Tragically, while combining the building for stragglers, he was caught up in its subsequent collapse. His body was never found.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
His exploits, along with others’, are memorialized in a book written by Hal Moore, the American commander during that five day clash. Rescorla’s photo is on the cover of “We were soldiers once ,,, and young”.
Today we have kids who need a safe space after an election and who get triggered by words. Man, how have we fallen so far?
You don't "win" the Medal of Honor.
With that, I also thank the Lord for giving us veterans another chance with Donald John Trump (who in truth has also been deliberately shot at) once again as the 47th Chief Officer to become like those--George Washington, and Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison, and Ulysses S. Grant, and Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who have served as Chief, preserving America's Greatness of heart and Spirit!
May God give our next president and his Marine Veteran Vice President the courage of Capt. Ed W. Freeman to carry on their physically dangerous commission to restore the freedom of citizens from the servants of Satan who have up to now tried to capture and eliminate the precious freedoms enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitutional plans of our Founders.
Let the "wokeness" and its teachers be wiped from our schools and colleges, replaced by reverence for our Maker and His coming Kingdom of righteousness and peace.