You're an 18 or 19 year old soldier. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965. LZ  Xray ,  Vietnam  . Your Infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own battalion commander has ordered the MediVac 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 halfway around the world and you know 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 guns, you faintly hear the sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no MediVac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not MediVac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the MediVacs 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 2 or 3 of you on board. 

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the doctors and nurses. 

And he kept coming back...... 13 more times..... and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out otherwise. 

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in  Boise ,  ID 

......May God rest his soul.....