Please do not be offended that I sent this.  He actually died August 20, 2008, but the story is true with a little drama built in. If you want to read more, the link is below                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29186886  You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. 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 Charlie Sheen, Tiger Woodsand 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. This communication (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. Any