Here is his story:

Ed Freeman

You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac 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 1/2 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, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs 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 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's
passing, but we sure were told a whole
bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward
beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"
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Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
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While I shed a tear at this true American hero's passing I became angry at the last sentence because in this day and age it's all too true.

RIP Ed Freeman.

Sad that another HERO has passed on. I have to point out though that it was late 2008 that he passed and just last month he had a Post Office named after him.

I think all MOH receipents should all have a Major Interstate Highway named after them

RIP!!!. a true hero. a funny thing that i personally do is to salute every MOH license plate that i see.

[QUOTE=PowerWindows;1194762]While I shed a tear at this true American hero's passing I became angry at the last sentence because in this day and age it's all too true. QUOTE]

Boy, you nailed that one. You never hear about the good news, only the murders/rapes/break ins, etc. I don't know if the American people really like the sensationalized dirt the media spits out at us, or if they just say that's what we want to see and then broadcast it. I could go on.....

OK, back the the subject. To keep going back into enemy fire (when you know you are going to be the main target) like that multiple times is true heroism. May his family be comforted and Eds soul RIP.

A Hero who went quietly. In most cases , that is how they go out, never gloating about their good deeds and never complaining about those who get reconized. Yes...Ed Freeman, whever you are, you ARE are HERO!!!!

Rest in Peace

Kev

Yet another MOH receipant passes

http://hosted2.ap.org/HIHON/Article_2009-04-09-Obit-Medal-of-Honor-Winner/id-p16c094bdfadb480b833f141fb4b642ac

Technical Sergeant Dunham Medal of Honor receipant dies at 89

RIP!!!. a true hero. a funny thing that i personally do is to salute every MOH license plate that i see.


A very respectful and honorable re-action!

And Silver Star, Purple Heart, and all VETERAN PLATES!