'Lost In History': 144 Photos That Might Change How You See The Past (New Pics)

[UpInArms]

You're A 19 Year Old Kid. You Are Critically Wounded And Dying In The Jungle Somewhere In The Central Highlands Of Viet Nam . Its 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 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 Army, Died At The Age Of 80, In Boise, Idaho. I Bet You Didn't Hear About This Hero's Passing, Medal Of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

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[underpants]

1. Very cool.

[Irish_Dem]

2. So many of those helicopter pilots in Viet Nam never came back.

I remember at the time that being a chopper pilot was almost a certain death sentence.

[mitch96]

5. I'm still haunted by a vid from a NVA camera man of the demise of a US medivac chopper.

Rising up, starting to wobble, Turns on it's side and all the wounded fall out. Then the chopper crashes on top of them.. Tears me up. I can't watch much on the Vietnam war..
These kids were my age at that time. Not my Fathers WW2 images. Not my Uncles Korea war images, not Gulf war of our kids.. It was my generations war.. It still hurts to see it and hear about it..
Like watching a ruzzian ambush of Ukrainian troops in pickups and suv's.
I wont tell you what the ruzzians did to the bodies...uff
It's on Polish TVP World, Military Mind if your interested
War sucks.
rant mode off..
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[Irish_Dem]

8. Yes those are the images that haunted us.

The choppers rescuing wounded or trapped men.
And being shot down.

I know helicopter pilots aren’t high status compared
To sexy fighter jets but I think they are the real heroes. Dangerous missions in all kinds of weather and night time flying. Bullets flying. Landing and take off very tricky in jungles and mountains.

Thanks I will take a look at the website you reference.

[LoisB]

3. You are correct, had never heard of Captain Freeman. Thank you for posting this so that now I

know.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Yes. Thank you.

[Collimator]

6. Just read the Wikipedia page for Capt. Freeman.

They named a Post Office after him. That's nice, of course, but not really enough.

When you think of differents sorts of people who get their names plastered all over things, a single Post Office doesn't seem to be much of a publicly funded legacy for this caliber of a human being. Of course, his real legacy is in the lives that he saved.

He's gone now, but I want to say it:

Thank you for your service, Sir.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. ...

During Military Training In Ww2, Gilbert Bradley Was In Love And Exchanged Hundreds Of Letters With His Sweetheart Who Would Only Sign The Letters With The Initial "G". 70 Years Later, When The Letters Were Transcribed, It Was Discovered That G Actually Stood For Gordon. Gilbert Had Been In Love With A Man. They Had To Keep Their Relationship A Secret Because Homosexuality Was Illegal At The Time And A Soldier Could Get Even Get Shot For Engaging In Homosexual Behavior. In One Of Their Letters Contained The Lines: "Wouldn't It Be Wonderful If All Our Letters Could Be Published In The Future In A More Enlightened Time. Then All The World Could See How In Love We Are."

#12 Married Couple Mildred And Richard Loving Answer Questions At A Press Conference The Day After The Us Supreme Court Ruled In Their Favor In Loving V. Virginia. June 13, 1967