[C38] Courage

[Bill Haynes]

Paul, I received the enclosed email from my remote tour base (Sparrevohn AFS in the Alaskan Mountain Range) email list.  I knew that you would like to read it also.

Bill


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From: Kirsten Gattie <bkbgattie at theworks.com>
To: Kirsten Gattie <bkbgattie at theworks.com>
Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 9:13:38 AM
Subject: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/ed-freeman.htm

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. 

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'spassing,  but we've sure seen a whole 
bunch  about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over 
Health Reform. 

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Now... YOU pass this along to YOUR 
mailing list. Honor this real American.  
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