John Balginy is the Play-by-Play Announcer for Idaho Falls Chukars Professional Baseball Team at KSPZ The Sports Zone 980 AM. John went to Coronado High School, studied at Idaho State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. We salute John for honoring fallen American heroes. John posted the following on social media.
On this Memorial Day weekend ... take a moment out of your day and learn what a Real American Hero truly is! You're a 19-year-old kid. You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
It's November 14, 1965. 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 lightly armored UH-1 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 30 seriously wounded soldiers out that day.
Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army Retired, died Wednesday, August 20, 2008 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, We’ve heard plenty about murders, Healthcare, Border security etc. BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE PASSING OF Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.
Shame on the media!!! Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real Hero. Please
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