Toxic Masculinity is a hand-me-down gift

as you watch this

ask yourself this

who taught him

to behave as that

the answer lays in a story

you’re a 19 old kid

You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the central highlands of Vietnam

It’s November 11, 1967. LZ

( landing zone )

X-ray

your unit is numbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away

that your CO has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in

You’re laying 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

you know you will 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

the sound of air being cut by a helicopter it’s a sound like no other

You look up to see a Huey coming in

it doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it

Captain Ed Freeman is coming for you

He’s not MedEvac

so it’s not his job

but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flyin his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyways

even after after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come.

He’s coming in anyways, he drops in and sits there in the machine gun fire

as they load three of you at a time on board. Then he flys you up out through the gunfire

to the doctors and Nurses and safety.

Thirteen times Captain Ed Freeman did this until all the wounded were out.

No one knew until the mission was over that Captain Ed Freeman

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 Captain Freeman and his Huey.

Captain Ed Freeman passed away

August of 2008

He’s remembered by his gift

examples are as follows:

Black hawk down

Benghazi

his gift was present at both places

I justcan see ” Tonto’s” face

when he heard

pregant females will fight and win future wars