Dennis Roberts... I salute you.

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Baiting Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2010 Posts: 2197

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 media !!!
Now... YOU pass this along.
Honor this real hero.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21155

RIP! There is someone worthy of recognition and, unlike the trash we see being reported, I am sure many idolized him, in and out of the service.

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:58 pm

RIP

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:17 pm

Thank you for the Post and Thank you Dennis Roberts for doing what most wouldn't!

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Nice post, we need to remember these people. RIP.

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:19 am

Who is "Dennis Roberts"? The man in the story is named "Ed Freeman".

Also... the story says that Ed Freeman

Quote:

died last Wednesday at the age of 70

Actually he died in 2008!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:10 am

Good catch Yastreb. Ed Freeman did die on on a Wednesday but August 20, 2008.

I could not understand what an Air Force guy was doing flying Hueys as the story says. Major Freeman first enlisted in the Navy during WW2, went home and later joined the Army after finishing high school. He was never in the Air Force. I just finished watching a movie about the battle of Pork Chop Hill where Major Freeman was one of only 17 survivors out of the first 257 and earned a battlefield commission which got him his pilots billet.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:24 pm

Yastreb wrote:

Who is "Dennis Roberts"? The man in the story is named "Ed Freeman".

Freeman was impressive an all that, but Dennis Roberts is the real hero here. He's the guy who had the courage to take a shot at the mindless media machine by liking and reposting that on Facebook... along with a few thousand other heros. Wink

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