Guest guest Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Yes absolutely I know who the Seawolves are. Please tell Bob THANK YOU. I helped with the Evac at the end. My dad work around the Seawolves he was a civilian with Alaska Barge and Transport. Walt on Whidbey IPF,Nsip.Uip. 06 Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.†Subject: Ed Freeman, RIP [1 Attachment]To: "Lung" <Breathe-Support >Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 11:25 AM Not necessarily related to this board, BUT it means something to me!! Thanks for putting up with me. Walt Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.†You’re a 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 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 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 Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID…May God rest his soul. Medal of Honor WinnerEd Freeman!Since the Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves send this to ever red blooded American you know.THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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