Citizens Dedicated To Preserving Our Constitutional Republic

“COURAGE ~ A PRAYER, AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE, FOR A LOST AMERICAN HERO”

Courage.
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You're a 19-year-old kid.
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You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.
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It’s November 11, 1967.
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LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
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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.
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You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.
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Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.
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As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
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Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
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You look up to see a Huey coming in. But ... It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
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Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

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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.
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Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come

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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.
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Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety.
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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.
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He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey

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Medal of Honor Recipient,

Captain Ed Freeman,

United States Air Force,

Died last Wednesday at the age of 70,

in Boise, Idaho.

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May God Bless and Rest His Soul.
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I bet you didn't hear about this HERO’S Passing, but we've sure seen, and heard a whole bunch about movie stars, music stars, sports stars, and Useless Politicians…
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