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Lt. Michael Murphy US Navy SEAL will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they don’t give those out very easily. Lt. Murphy died in the mountains of Afghanistan in late June of 2005. He was leading a team of three other SEALs deep into enemy territory doing reconnaissance. Taliban forces found them and an intense fire battle ensued. The SEALs were greatly outnumbered but fought on for about two hours. Three out of the four died that day along with 8 more SEALS and 8 Army specialists whose helicopter was shot down while attemting to rescue the four. The One survivor was helped by a villager until US forces rescued him. He has since written a book about the battle. Read more about Lt Murphy here.



Ever since high school I’ve been fascinated with Navy SEALs. I often wonder if I could have made it through BUDS, the extremely rigorous training, not many do. I love to read about SEALS, watch movies about them and the specials on Discovery Channel etc. You don’t often hear about their real operations though. That’s why when this battle took place two years ago, it was reported in the media and provided an inside glimpse at the elite team. It wasn’t very obvious, you still had to search for it but there was lots of information out ther on the battle and these men. For a while it consumed me. I was reading about their lives, memorials, honors, and later when The One survivor was made public details of the battle. There are rumors they might turn the book into a movie. I hope it honors these men well. If you look at my Myspace page you’ll see under heroes I have listed PO2 Danny Dietz. He was one of the SEALs that died alongside Lt Murphy that day. I picked him because as I read about these men’s lives I identified more closely with him, his family is even from the same denomination as my church. All of those men are heroes. PO2 Danny Dietz and PO2 Matthew Axelson, the other teammate that died received the Navy Cross along with Marcus Lutrell who was the lone survivor (whose twin brother is also a Navy SEAL), and now after a long wait Lt. Murphy will be recognized with the Medal of Honor. The medal will be awarded to his family on Oct 22 at the White House.

(via Rite Me Up)