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2008-03-16 Home Front: WoT

Navy Seal Michael Monsoor to Be Awarded MoH

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2008-03-16 00:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Unfortunately, most MoH are awarded posthumously. Indeed a brave man who put his team mates lives above his. ROP Michael.

Posted by Captain Hupeling2734 2008-03-16 13:44|| 2008-03-16 13:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients still remain. Less than one for every three million Americans.

How many people today can even say they have seen a MoH recipient in person? Of them, how many have heard a living one speak?

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-03-16 16:00|| 2008-03-16 16:00|| Front Page Top

#3 To my limited knowledge, this was the largest recent gathering, on the sixtieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor and less than three months after 9/11. It was awesome just to watch the parade go by.

Posted by Matt 2008-03-16 18:53|| 2008-03-16 18:53|| Front Page Top

#4 My military studies professor freshman year at the Air Force Academy won the MoH. He told us the story. He was a chopper pilot. He had to pick some guys up. He hovered his helicopter in place at the edge of a river to let them all get on board while the VC or NVA shot out his windscreen.

I suspect most MoH stories are like that. Someone had a job to do to save someone else and just did it.

Posted by Black Bart Elmeatle8934 2008-03-16 23:39|| 2008-03-16 23:39|| Front Page Top

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