Shame on the American media !!!

[doberman 152]

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 ..

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a
whole bunch about tiger woods, LT's a baby raper,Faisal Shahzad, this is just my media vent thanks for reading.

[SMWS6TA]

I wish we had a taps smile for things like this.



Go now brother, rest easy, your task is done, you were a Patriot

[Spaz]

wow... hats off to this man...

[Spaz]

it is also true...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

[raynor139]

Wasnt Mel Gibsons movie We Were Soldiers based off that battle?

[1MileCrash]

these are the men...the stuff of legends. amazing.

[SiggyZ]

Absolutely pathetic that the not one single major media outlet did something on this hero passing.

[67CamaroRSSS]

Absolutely pathetic that the not one single major media outlet did something on this hero passing.

What did you expect with todays left-wing biased, military hating, politically correct dominated media?

[67CamaroRSSS]

Wasnt Mel Gibsons movie We Were Soldiers based off that battle?

While the movie wasn't based on Ed Freeman's actions, his actions did result in his eventually receiving the MoH for his actions during the battle. He was "Too Tall"...

he was also in the batle for Pork Chop Hill in the Korean War. Quite a remarkable individual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

[Z28Thunder]

While the movie wasn't based on Ed Freeman's actions, his actions did result in his eventually receiving the MoH for his actions during the battle. He was "Too Tall"...

he was also in the batle for Pork Chop Hill in the Korean War. Quite a remarkable individual.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

Yes it should have made the news. But wikipedia shows he passed August 20, 2008.

[whitelightnin99]

amazing, thanks again to you military guys who protect our country

[ss~zoso~ss]

"All gave some, some gave all.."

Yes, the Media is evil and full of garbage.

Nobody seems to give two shits about the real heroes of this great Country

[BdAsBrd01]

Fucking sorry ass lefty media. Why would they report on anything noteworthy like this when they're busy demonizing Arizona.
Men like him are few and far between.

[iam_dale]

*salute*