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The following is a piece of information from the "getting the right data" - department.
I received this story in an email from a well-meaning person who allowed herself being swept away by emotions and failed to look for the real culprit
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!! 13more 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 Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods.
Shame on the American media !!!
I am sure that Captain Ed Freeman is an honorable man and I do not wish to minimize his bravery but looking at the fact who gave him that medal of honor I can not help but file that story in the big folder "Breaking your Legs, then giving you Crutches."
Neither Captain Freeman nor that 19 year old kid should have been in 'Nam to begin with. They did not have any quarrels with any of the people who were now shooting at them until some guy in Washington convinced them that these communists in this little country on the other side of the planet were really bad and would pose a great threat to beer, BBQ and football.
So they kissed their loved ones good-bye, flew half around the planet and started shooting at people in their own home. Does not astonish me at all that these people shot back. Many died, on both sides, but these two at least came back to tell the story. And then, to add insult to injury, the ones who abetted so many to commit immoral acts, gave Ed a piece of metal with a ribbon, telling him that he was great for saving his buddy.
Sorry Ed but you have been terribly duped. You supported a system that initiated deadly force - and that can not be good for your inner peace. In the end I sure hope that you can forgive yourself. "Being told", or "following orders" will not work as we have seen in the aftermath of world war II.
I don't think to favorable about our press, but in this case I really can't blame them - they are a business and they write what people are willing to pay money for (or give attention to, which is about the same thing.)
This is the point where we have to practice, practice, practice to keep an eye on the truth despite attempts to blind us with emotions and the instilling of hate.
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