Comments on: “He Knew What He Was Fighting For.”

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » A Decidedly Incongruous Job

Blue Crab Boulevard » A Decidedly Incongruous Job — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:25:44 +0000

[...] commanded by Lieutenant Michael Murphy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously on Monday. (Post with video here.) For the past five months Mr. Luttrell has been an unpaid publicist for the team members he lost [...]

By: wheels

wheels — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:25:12 +0000

Impressive. I teared up at that, but I always tear up for that sort of thing – I remember doing so while reading the Medal of Honor citations in Memorial Hall at the Naval Academy. I remember doing so during a full formation in T-Court, as one of my classmates was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal.

I know where we get young men like that – they’re all around us. Sometimes, they’re easier to recognize than others.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:21:17 +0000

Meet Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy…

He was posthumously awarded with the Medal of Honor by the President today. Via AP:
WASHINGTON – President Bush publicly honored a fallen Navy SEAL Monday by presenting his grieving parents with the Medal of Honor — and privately honored their sacrif…