Who is Ed Freeman you say? Well, read and find out.

Missing from the news....

You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November the 14th, 1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam.

Your infantry unit is outnumbered eight to one, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own 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 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, and you look up to see an un-armed EH-1 Huey.  It doesn't seem real, because there are no medi-vac markings 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 told not to come.

He's coming anyway.

Ed drops 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 waiting doctors and nurses.

Ed kept coming back, and he kept coming back, and he kept coming back.................13 more times.....and took over 30 of you and your buddies out, who otherwise would NEVER gotten out.

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman died this past September 26th, in Boise, ID, at the age of 80.

May God rest his soul.

Oh yeah................Paul Newman died that day, too.  I guess you knew that.  He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.