Triumphrat

cafecruzin · 06-14-2009, 12:15 AM

worth a read
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...1-1704823.html

Medic09 · 06-14-2009, 12:28 AM

Quite a story, that. Thanks for posting it.

Catenaccio · 06-14-2009, 01:27 AM

Fascinating man and glimpse into the past.

HiDesert · 06-15-2009, 02:41 PM

God bless him. May we never forget.

propforward · 06-15-2009, 04:41 PM

That is a brilliant article, and I want his book, I bet that will be a very striking and moving read.

Tbirdnz · 06-16-2009, 05:48 PM

He was 36 hours lying wounded with shrapnel inside him at an aid station before being seen by a doctor and this was after he was found on the battlefield. Just shows part of the carnage of that war where it overwhelmed everything. How many men died of wounds that could have been saved had aid been able to be given to them earlier. He's a lucky guy in more ways than one.

I think that war affected just about every family in Britain, a time when whole regiments were formed locally and fought and died together wiping out most of the men of lots of small towns in one battle.

The war to end all wars, not quite.

Haggis · 06-16-2009, 08:02 PM

Harry Patch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7peTBVprtY&NR=1

Henry Allingham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbVgzXoZbA&NR=1

Lee · 06-16-2009, 08:19 PM

This time last year there were three WWI US vets left. They all passed one by one. I believe the last to pass was a couple of months ago. My grandfather was a WWI vet. He passed in the seventies.

TRIIICK · 06-16-2009, 08:42 PM

Quite a story....! When i was a kid i met a guy from WWI , he was covered with mustard gas burns. He told me it often happened they would launch the mustard gas at the enemy and the wind would change and it would blow back on them.

Lee · 06-16-2009, 08:48 PM

I just got this from a friend it seemed to fit......

Ed Freeman
You’re an 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8–1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry 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 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 helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He’s not Medi-Vac, so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs 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.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID…May God rest his soul.

Medal of Honor Winner

Ed Freeman!

Since the Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves send this to ever red blooded American you know.THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.

RIP