I received this in an email and had to share it with everybody. It's people like Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor that make me proud to be an American.
This is the story about this brave American.
PO2 (EOD2) (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) 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. (Notice: Mike was not a Navy SEAL, he was EOD. He gave his life to save a group of Navy 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; were SEALS lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of twos, 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 at 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 every day..
Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by forwarding it to you, and hope that you will be proud and forward it to your friends, and so on, and so on.
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 will continue to serve and protect you, me, our families and our great country without the acknowledgement and praise, but DON'T YOU THINK THEY DESERVE FRONT PAGE NEWS ON EVERY NEWSPAPER IN OUR GREAT NATION? I DO, THAT IS WHY I SENT THIS ON THROUGH THE NEXT BEST THING, EMAIL, WHICH CAN ALSO REACH THOUSANDS WITH YOUR HELP~!
PLEASE REMEMBER THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN IN YOUR PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT---WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE, WE ARE SURE TO SUCCEED.
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS AND OUR NATION!
