Damn right I'll Pass It On!

"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's passing; 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. Shame on the American media! Now... YOU pass this along to YOUR mailing list. Honor this real American.. Please." I guess some of us "old geezers" WERE worth something, after all. I'm not surprised the liberal media ignored the death of this brave man. His actions go against their very idea of why people join the military. They think they only do it to "get a job." But this guy went way beyond just "doing a job." And he lasted until age 70 while he was at it. Damn right I'll "pass it on! (Ray Thomas) Thanks to my sister Patti for this, originally sent by Barry Cooper. When I read about this I think about my 19-year-old grandson whose biggest worry right now is how he's going to get to his friend's house or where he's going to take his girlfriend on their next date.