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Retrieved from Email by Pat Darnell


Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor PO2 \ EOD2, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for covering a live grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals.

Though Mike was not a Navy SEAL, he was EOD.. he bargained his own life to save nearby Navy SEALS. It is heroic what he did, in the most ardent virtue of selflessness.

During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft.. Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEAL's were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route

As Mike Monsoor's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it.

A fitting send-off for a fellow warrior hero, though it is a stiff price to pay.

This should be front-page news instead of the drivel we see every day. Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by forwarding it.

I am very proud of our military. If you are proud too, please pass this on. If not then rest assured that these fine men and women of our military continue to serve and protect.