Viet Nam 1967 till 1-15-15‏

[moose 57]

 

You're a 19 year old kid.

You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle some wher e in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .

It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is out numbered 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 1-15-15, 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 the thug Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,The government shut down,

"what difference does it make!!!, etc, etc.  

And the bickering of congress over Health & OBAMA CARE!

BUT ZIP ABOUT THE PASSING OF

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

Shame on the media !!!

Now...

YOU pass this along.

 

 

 

 

 

[SnowGlobe7]

 prayers up...Bless this mans family!

THIS MAN IS A TRUE HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited May 21, 2015 by SnowGlobe7

[tankdude]

AMEN!!!

[nannab]

Rest  in peace Captain Ed Freeman. Our prayers for you and your family.

Another true hero.

[jaman]

Amen... R I P brother

[Lex]

Some gave their all, Captain Freeman is one, and all gave some. I will never forget what they did for our fellow warrior's and honor their memories for the price they paid for our freedom and way of life.  To those who served I salute you, THANK YOU!  

[bigwave]

[George Hayduke]

To keep the record straight, Cpt. Freeman died in 2008 not 2015.

[freeroy]

This is a very interesting account of how Americans treated the family of Chris Kyle after he was murdered. And how they honored him. Also interesting who did not.

 

Chris Kyle: Amen

 

This is

 

from a wife of one of the Navy Seals inattendance...it makes interesting,

 

disturbing, but hardly surprising reading.

 

Chris Kyle

 

became the armed

 

services number #1 sniper of all time.

Not something he was happy about, other than the

 

fact that in so doing, he saved a lot of American

 

lives.

 

Three years ago, his

 

wife Taya asked him to leave the SEAL teams

 

because he had a huge bounty on his head by Al

 

Qaeda. He did and wrote the book "The American

 

Sniper." 100% of the proceeds from the book went

 

to two of

the SEAL families who

 

had lost their sons in Iraq.

That was the kind of

guy Chris was. He formed a company in Dallas

 

to train military, police and I think firemen, how

 

to protect themselves in difficult situations. He

 

also formed a foundation to work with

 

military people suffering from PTSD. Chris was a

giver not a taker. He, along

 

with a friend andneighbor, Chad Littlefield, were murdered tryingto help a young man that had served six months in

 

Iraq and claimed to have PTSD.

 

Now I need

 

to tell you about all of the blessings.

 

Southwest

 

Airlines

 

-

 

flew in any SEAL and

 

their family from any airport to the

 

funeral... free of charge. The employees donated

 

buddy passes and one lady worked for four days

 

without much of a break to see that it happened.

Volunteers were at both airports in Dallas to drive them to the hotel.

The Marriott Hotel

 

-

 

reduced their rates to $45 a night and cleared the hotel for

 

only SEAL's and family.

 

The Midlothian, TX Police Department -

 

paid the $45 a night for each room. I would guess there were about

 

200 people staying at the hotel, 100 of them were SEALs.

 

Two large buses were chartered,  (an unknown donor paid

 

the bill)

 

to transport people to the different events and they

 

also had

 

a few rental cars (donated).

The police and secret service

 

were on duty 24 hours during the stay at

our hotel.

 

At the Kyle house,

 

the Texas DPS

 

parked a large motor home

 

in front to

 

block

 

the

 

view from reporters. It remained there the entire five days for the SEALs to meet in and so

 

they could use the restroom there instead of the bathroom in the house.

 

Taya, their two small children and both sets of parents

 

were staying in the home.

 

Only a hand full of SEALs went into the home as they had different duties and meetings were held sometimes on an hourly basis.

It was a huge coordination of many different events and security. Derek was assigned to be a Pall Bearer, to escort Chris' body when it was transferred from the Midlothian Funeral Home to the Arlington Funeral Home, and to be with Taya. A tough job. Taya seldom came out of her bedroom. The house was full with people from the church and other

 

family members that would come each day to help. I spent one morning in a bedroom with Chris' mom and the next morning with Chad Littlefield's parents (the other

 

man murdered with Chris). A tough job.

 

George W Bush and his wife Laura

, met and talked to everyone on the Seal Team one on one. They went behind closed doors with Taya for quite a while. They had prayer with us all. You can tell when people were sincere and caring

Nolan Ryan

 

sent his cooking team, a huge grill and lots of steaks, chicken and hamburgers. They set up in the front yard and fed people all day long including the

 

200 SEALs and their families.

The next day a local BBQ restaurant set up a buffet in front of the house and fed all once again.

 

 

 

Food was plentiful and all were taken care of. The

 

family's church

 

kept those inside the house well fed.

 

 

 

Jerry Jones,

 

the man everyone loves to hate, was a rock star. He made sure that we all were taken care of. His wife and he were just making sure everyone was taken care

 

of....Class...

He donated the use of Cowboy Stadium for the services

 

because so many wanted to attend. The charter buses transported us to the stadium on Monday at 10:30 am. Every car, bus, motorcycle was searched with bomb dogs and police. I am not sure if kooks were making threats trying to make a name for themselves or if so many

 

SEALs

 

in one place was a security risk, I don't know. We willingly obliged. No purses went into the stadium!

 

We were taken to The Legends room

 

high up and a large buffet was available.

 

That

 

was for about 300 people

. We were growing.

 

A Medal of Honor recipient was there, lots of secret service and police and Sarah Palin and her husband.

 

She

 

looked nice, this was a very formal military service.

 

The service started at 1:00 pm and when we were escorted onto the field I was shocked. We heard that about

 

10,000 people had come to attend also. They were

seated in the stadium seats behind us

.

 

It was a beautiful and emotional service. The Bagpipe and drum corpswere wonderful and

 

the Texas A&M men's choir

 

stood through the entire service and sang right at the

 

end. We were all in tears.

 

The next day was the 200-mile procession

from Midlothian, TX to Austin for burial. It was a cold, drizzly, windy day, but the people were out.

We had

 

dozens of police motorcycles riders

,

freedom riders, five chartered buses and lots of cars

. You had to have a pass to be in the procession and still it was huge.

 

 

Two helicopters

 

circled the procession

 

with snipers

 

sitting out the side door for

 

protection.

It was the longest funeral procession ever in the state of Texas

 

. People were everywhere.

The entire route was shut down ahead of us

,

the people were lined up on the side of the road the entire way.

 

Firemen

 

were down on one knee,

 

police officers

 

were holding their hats over their hearts,

children

 

waving flags,

 

veterans saluting

 

as we went by.

 

Every bridge had fire trucks with large flags displayed

 

from their tall ladders,

 

people all along the entire 200 miles were standing in the cold weather.

 

It was so heartwarming.

 

 

 

Taya rode in the hearse with Chris' body so Derek rode the route with us. I was so grateful to have that time with him.

 

 

The service was at

 

Texas National Cemetery.

Very few are buried there

 

and you have to apply to get in

 

. It is like people from the Civil War, Medal of Honor winners, a few from the Alamo and all the historical people of Texas.

 

It was a nice service and the

 

Freedom Riders

surrounded the outside of the

 

entire cemetery to keep the crazy church people from Kansas that protest at military funerals away from us.

 

Each SEAL

 

put his Trident (metal SEAL badge) on the top of Chris' casket, one

 

at a time. A lot hit it in with one blow. Derek was the only one to take four taps to put his in and it was almost like he was caressing it as he did it.

 

Another tearful moment.

 

After the service Governor Rick Perry and his wife, Anita

, invited us to the

governor's mansion. She stood at the door, greeted each of us individually, and gave each of the SEALs a coin of Texas. She was a sincere, compassionate and gracious hostess. We were able to tour the ground floor and then went into the garden for beverages and BBQ.

 

So many of the Seal team guys said that after they get out they are moving to Texas.

 

They remarked that they had never felt so much love and hospitality. The

charter buses then took the guys to the airport to catch their returning flights. Derek just now called and after a 20 hours flight he is back in his spot, in a dangerous land on the other side of the world,

 

protecting America.

We just wanted to share with you, the events of a quite emotional, but blessed week.

 

 

To

 

this day,

 

no one

 

in the

 

White House has ever acknowledged Chris Kyle; his

 

service, his death, his duty, his generosity,

 

his caring, his life.

However,

 

the

 

President can call a sports person

and

 

congratulate him on his bravery for announcing

 

to the world that he is ***.

 

He can say on

 

national television

 

that

 

someone, a man who has committed a crime

 

and

 

was shot by police in the line of duty,

 

would have made him a good son.

The SEALS

 

have asked that you please, keep this moving if you think Chris Kyle would have made a good son

 

[EagleEye]

Moose and freeroy...thanks for your posts...I well remember the news both when Capt Freeman passed away and when Chris Kyle was murdered...Sadly the collective memory of our citizens is often short lived where are true heroes are concerned..... RIP fellow warriors....there are some who will long remember and honor you...

 

REMEMBER OUR FALLEN HEROES AS YOU CELEBRATE THIS 4th !!!  :salute: