Mike Monsoor (I got an email about this Medal of Honor winner posthumously) snopes confirmed

[Omaha Steve]

From Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/monsoor.asp

TRUE
Medal of Honor

PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, posthumously...for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals.

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, SEALs were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route...forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike'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. This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.

This should be front-page news, instead of the crap we see everyday.

Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by forwarding it onto you. I am proud of our military!! These fine men and women of our military, will continue to serve and protect.

Video and much more at link.

[pansypoo53219]

1. if georgee wasn't such an ass

it would be news. maybe NPR will pick thiss up. HINT

[crickets]

2. Thank you.

[catnhatnh]

3. Steve....I gotta say this...

Early and often in training in '72 we were told not to do this. We were told if the grenade were close enough to get to it was close enough to fling...and that a grenade flung a full second away was not a fatal grenade to anyone. I would never for a minute doubt the heroism involved, but it does make me wonder about his training.

[Bigmack]

4. I can't help but think....

about what a wonderful person he would have been had he lived. Imagine what that wonderful, brave man could have done with his life.

Dead heroes are just dead.

I lost two friends in Vietnam who would really have been great husbands, fathers, and community leaders.... both of them.

They've been dead for 40 years, and now we buy our sneakers from Vietnam.

Forty years from now, he'll still be dead and Iraq will still be fucked up.

Doesn't seem like a good use of fine people to me.

We gotta find another way.