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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 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 soldiers 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 heard a whole lot about the Titanic Sinking, about Whitney Houston, Rebecca Brooks and the bad weather in Southern England.

Shame on the media !!!

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

Captain Freeman won the following awards.
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Flying Cross
Bronze Star with Combat "V"
Purple Heart
Air Medal with three silver Oak Leaf Clusters and one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
Army Commendation Medal
Army Good Conduct Medal
American Area Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal
National Defense Service Medal with one Bronze Service Star
Korean Service Medal with two bronze service stars
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal

Wikipedia Link
Captain Ed W. Freeman
Captain Freeman at Snoopes.com
Ed Freeman, Medal of Honor Recipient
Ed W. Freeman< Idaho Statesman