Courage.
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You're a 19 year old kid.�

You're critically wounded and dying in the� jungle somewhere in the Central
Highlands� of Viet Nam.�


It's� November 11, 1967.���
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 Recipient,�Captain� Ed Freeman,�United States Air Force, died
last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho ..�
�

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.�



I bet you didn't hear about this hero's�passing,� but we've sure seen a whole
bunch�about Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over
Health Reform.


Medal of� Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman


Shame on the American media !!!�