Is life fair?

[jellyrug]

Got this from an old friend, really made me think.

You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of VietNam 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 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's passing, but we've sure heard a whole bunch about Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.



Honor this real hero.


LEST WE FORGET

 

[GsxrBots]

Life is fair Jelly... Mainly because Captain Ed Freeman lived a "fuller" and happier life than Whitney, Lindsay, etc.. He will also live a "fuller" afterlife.

Thanks for the share!

 

[dadofthree]

Major Ed Freeman passed in August 2008 I believe. An American Hero for sure and worth remembrance, like all our fallen heros

 

[Blanca BusaLess]

Good post.

Rip

 

[kuntreeboy]

Yeah miltiary arent heard about or remembered until something happens!! I was in Korea on Sep 11 and afterwards the base populace was loving us cops bringing cold drinks on the hot days and warm drinks on the cold days!! Baking things and saying thank you ALLOT!! Not even a year later we were the hated fun killing Aholes again!! I think the Capt knew what he did would never get him national recognition like people who drink and drive, do drugs, or show there who ha to everyone but I dont think he cared!!! But I am with you! There shoulda been a holiday for that man and so many other great REAL American Heros!!!

 

[VaBusa]

Yep, I wish we as a society would focus more on the true heroes and not the trash today's media likes to follow around like puppies...

Great post! Wonderful reminder of those that deserve so much more than just being a tiny blurb in a newspaper...

 

[tracks]

Nothing in life is fair and god gave us no guarantee in life, the only guarantee god gave us is we all know were gonna die some day.

 

[mr8ball]

It is a shame that people do not honor someone like this. It does seem like every time some singer dies from drugs they are praised as someone special or some type of hero that their life was cut short. Well, they are the ones that decided to take the drugs and throw their life away. The true heros of our country are the men and woman that serve our country and put their life on the line everyday to protect us. The ones who died trying to protect us so we can have this thing called freedom. The media will spend 3 days to cover some singers death and talk about what was but then never say how they threw everything away for the drugs that took their life, but a person that dies in a war or does something to save many lives might get a 15 to 30 second clip on the news. Just sad. So from me THANK ALL OF YOU that serve and protect us. Words could never say enough.