Courage

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Courage.

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.

http://www.thundercatslair.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=33&pictureid=307

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 and Tiger Woods.

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I took the time to google this before making a reply because unfortunately there are too many fake letters. This man was a real hero and it’s a shame that more people heard of Michael Jackson (I’ll keep my comments to myself as I really don’t like him) than a real war hero.

My father was also in the U.S. Air Force from 1962- 1966. He was an E-5 (Staff Sargent) He has quite a history in the Air Force too. He was part of the Berlin Air Lift. I could write paragraphs on his service but I won’t. Any daughter will always say why their Daddy is their hero, so I’ll spare you of the details. My father remembers when U-2 was an airplane LOL

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@queen lynxana

I took the time to google this before making a reply because unfortunately there are too many fake letters. This man was a real hero and it’s a shame that more people heard of Michael Jackson (I’ll keep my comments to myself as I really don’t like him) than a real war hero.

My father was also in the U.S. Air Force from 1962- 1966. He was an E-5 (Staff Sargent) He has quite a history in the Air Force too. He was part of the Berlin Air Lift. I could write paragraphs on his service but I won’t. Any daughter will always say why their Daddy is their hero, so I’ll spare you of the details. My father remembers when U-2 was an airplane LOL

I should of thought to Google it…A friend of mine who is here in Iraq sent it to me a while back, going through old emails, i found it and decided to share

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May I ask you what branch of the service you are in? Many of my family are in the service or veterans and the military is very important to me. Your profile says you are in Iraq. God Bless You hunny.