Song

[DUD]

A George Jones song, it brought tears. Bill




http://home.comcast.net/~singingman7/TNOTW.htm

[RAFlorida]

Yes, tears will fall. God bless each and every one of those fallen hereos.

Never let any of those names be forgotten, ever.
Thanks Bill for a sobering post.

[shoottx]

You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965.

LZ Xray, Vietnam.

Your Infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your Infantry Commander has ordered the Medi-Vac 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 a 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 Winner, Ed Freeman died August 20, 2008 at 80, in Boise, ID.

Just a vet, some would say.

God Bless Ed Freeman.

[Whaler]

Thanks for posting that one Dud.

[Pappy]

Thanks, Bill. Mike, I went to school with one of those Army Warrant Officer medivac pilots. Most of them were kids with no sense of fear. Richard had seven birds shot out from under him and kept going up again. Number 8 took him with it.