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Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor Awarded Medal of Honor

Thanks to Subsunk at Black Five for pointing me to this article in Men’s Health about the bravery of Navy SEALs. It’s an outstanding article that clearly shows the remarkable men who earn the title of Navy SEAL.

Make sure to read the entire article, but this passage near the end gave me chills:

Later that evening, I stand in a shadowed corner of the ready room as these same men don their war paint for that night’s intended “snatch.” Whitesnake screams over the loudspeakers. Cans of Rockstar and Red Bull are emptied. Blue extra-sticky tape is attached to explosive charges. K-bars are sharpened. A bomb-sniffing German shepherd, his fur neatly shaved into a mohawk, growls. A Pussycat Dolls video plays on a large-screen TV. A 50-caliber machine gun is oiled, and chem lights and headlamps are tested. Slides are racked onto sidearms. There is much burping and farting.

The SEALs, several dozen of them, fly at midnight. They return 31/2 hours later with 16 handcuffed prisoners. As they file past me, the SEAL officer who’d been most vociferous about wanting to kill people winks. “No dead,” he says, nodding toward the captives. “Now that’s courage.”

Yesterday, Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael Anthony Monsoor was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Posthumously.

You probably weren’t aware of it, since the main stream media ignored the story.

As Subsunk notes:

There is no question Michael Monsoor epitomizes the Character, Courage, and Commitment to his comrades that distinguishes Bravery from the common and cheap political discourse and communication of Cowardice seen from Congress today. Thank God our country produces more Men like Mike than “Congressquitters” like _insert name of your favorite dhimmi here_.

Men like Micheal Monsoor and his SEAL brothers really are better men than almost anybody else you will ever meet in your life.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | Trackback |

7 Responses to “Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor Awarded Medal of Honor”

I knew it was coming up, and they actually had a news clip on Brit Hume’s Special Report yesterday, from the White House ceremony.
They are some really serious bad-a$$ mofos, with the best toys available. God Bless’em all, we need them in this dangerous world.

Left by no2liberals on April 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Aren’t you glad there are stories like this to reinforce your firm belief that you are so much better than other people?

Left by Pat on April 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

I’ll let John Stuart Mill answer for me:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

So, yeah. I do think that — as a whole — those in the military and veterans are better men than any other collective group.

But you already knew that.

Left by Robbie on April 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

You’re building castles in the air - soldiers are merely a snapshot of our less-fortunate population at large, no better, no worse. How else could the “phony soldiers” (Democrats) of dildo-head fame even exist if this were not the case? Most GIs have joined to better their lives, maybe score some college money - they’re not all looking for glory and would mostly prefer to leave the real action to the jarheads like yourself. I know this - I grew up in one of those never-never lands of military co-dependency known as Killeen, Texas, situated in a county that consistently weighs in among the highest crime and domestic abuse rates in the state, including Houston and Dallas. Surely the proximity of the largest military base in the free world would counterbalance that distrurbing fact were it truly populated by the kind of virtuous individuals that you have created in your own mind. It has not.

Left by Pat on April 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Pat, you are so full of shit.

Left by no2liberals on April 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

Brilliant rebuttal, N2l.

Left by John Jarzemsky on April 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

[...] More about Michael Monsoor here. [...]

Left by UrbanGrounds » Blog Archive » Orson Swindle Honoring Medal of Honor at RNC on September 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm

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