Seal to receive Medal of Honor
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Heard about this today on the Mark Levin show. (Text from Navy Times)
SAN DIEGO — A California-based SEAL who threw his body on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor, a Defense Department official has confirmed. Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor, of Garden Grove, Calif., was holed up on the roof of a Ramadi house with three other SEALs on Sept. 29, 2006, when an insurgent grenade landed nearby. Monsoor, a 25-year old with SEAL Team 3, grabbed the grenade and clutched it to his chest. The blast killed him, but his actions, officials said at the time, saved the men on the rooftop. Monsoor will be the second member of the Navy to receive the Medal of Honor since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, and the first sailor to receive it for combat in Iraq.
Monsoor, a platoon machine gunner, had received the Silver Star, the third-highest award for combat valor, for his actions pulling a wounded SEAL to safety during a May 9, 2006, firefight in Ramadi.
There have been 3 other Medals of Honor awarded posthumously during the combined missions in both Iraq and Afganistan. To all these brave soldiers and their families I give Thanks and you will be in my prayers. If you see one of our soldiers on the street, in a resturant or elsewhere, please tell them thank you. If you can, cover their meal for them. While it may not mean that much to us to tell them thank you, it means a lot to them.