Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael A. Monsoor
For actions on Sept. 29, 2006
Petty Officer Monsoor’s actions could not have been more selfless or clearly intentional. Of the three SEALs on that rooftop corner, he had the only avenue of escape away from the blast, and if he had so chosen, he could have easily escaped. Instead, Monsoor chose to protect his comrades by the sacrifice of his own life. By his courageous and selfless actions, he saved the lives of his two fellow SEALs and he is the most deserving of the special recognition afforded by awarding the Medal of Honor.
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Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroes. Show all posts
Wake-Up Call
Letters to the editor in a local Arizona newspaper
Lt. Col. Scott Pleus
military, news media, troops, heroes
Letters to the editor in a local Arizona newspaper
Lt. Col. Scott Pleus
military, news media, troops, heroes
Ed Freeman (sent via email)
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November 14,1965. LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the medevac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you'r enot getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away,and you'll 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 of a helicopter,and you look up to see a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no medevac markings are on it.
Ed 'Too Tall' Freeman is coming for you. He's not a medevac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the medevac's were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, they load 2 or 3 of you on board, as they drop off much needed water and ammunition. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back......13 more times..... and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died Wednesday Sept.3, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho.
Thanks Ed....... Blue Skies.
Recognition for one of America's best
February 17, 2007, by Joseph L. Galloway
foreign affairs, history, military, troops, war, heroes
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November 14,1965. LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the medevac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you'r enot getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away,and you'll 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 of a helicopter,and you look up to see a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no medevac markings are on it.
Ed 'Too Tall' Freeman is coming for you. He's not a medevac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the medevac's were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, they load 2 or 3 of you on board, as they drop off much needed water and ammunition. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back......13 more times..... and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died Wednesday Sept.3, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho.
Thanks Ed....... Blue Skies.
Recognition for one of America's best
February 17, 2007, by Joseph L. Galloway
foreign affairs, history, military, troops, war, heroes
Why he served
October 17, 2008, by Michelle Malkin
The following is a blog entry written on Aug. 30, 2008, by Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato, who was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was blown up by an improvised explosive device. This entry was forwarded to the Globe by his mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Crawford.
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October 17, 2008, by Michelle Malkin
The following is a blog entry written on Aug. 30, 2008, by Army Specialist Stephen Fortunato, who was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was riding in was blown up by an improvised explosive device. This entry was forwarded to the Globe by his mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Crawford.
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Freedom Is Not Free
Aiding wounded service members, their families and the families of the fatally wounded.
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Aiding wounded service members, their families and the families of the fatally wounded.
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My Choice
February 11, 2008, by Sgt. Seth Conner
When the nosecones of 767 passenger jets punched into the Twin Towers, my choice was simple to make. My choice was not, as the patchouli-smelling Berkeley hippies would have you believe, the duplicitous work of “salespeople known to lie to and seduce minors and young adults into contracting themselves into military service with false promises.” By that rationale, car salesmen are responsible for the 40,000 Americans who will die this year on the nation’s highways.
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February 11, 2008, by Sgt. Seth Conner
When the nosecones of 767 passenger jets punched into the Twin Towers, my choice was simple to make. My choice was not, as the patchouli-smelling Berkeley hippies would have you believe, the duplicitous work of “salespeople known to lie to and seduce minors and young adults into contracting themselves into military service with false promises.” By that rationale, car salesmen are responsible for the 40,000 Americans who will die this year on the nation’s highways.
anti-war, columns, favorite, left wing, military, political correctness, politics, propaganda, troops, war, opinion, heroes
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