Tigerhawk says:

"In a just world, who should be the better known parent of an American soldier killed in action: Bush-bashing surrender activist Cindy Sheehan, to whom Maureen Dowd famously ascribed "absolute moral authority," or Dr. Bill Krissoff, who at the age of 60 gave up a lucrative medical practice to join the Navy in honor of his son, a United States Marine who died in Iraq?"

So true.

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I got a phone call from somebody I knew [in Iraq] who personally survived an I.E.D. attack on one of these vehicles:

Former Navy S.E.A.L. Christopher Berman built a better armored vehicle to help prevent the tragedy that befell his friend, Scott Helvenston, whose car was ambushed by insurgents in Fallujah in 2004. Helvenston’s body was defiled and hung from a bridge.

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Hero of the Hudson.

"That guy is one cool customer," said a police source. "He was a rock star. He had saved everybody and was behaving like it was just another day at the office."

Check out the video Gateway Pundit has that shows the plane landing in the water and the ensuing rescue.

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"Love begins in the mind, not the eyes,"

These soldiers never cease to amaze me!

Photo by Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky.

Five year old Noor Taha Najee kisses 1st Lt. Michael Kendrick, platoon leader, 2nd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. Noor's corneas are underdeveloped, and she has been blind since birth. The Soldiers of this Platoon are working with NGO Eye Defects Research Foundation of Los Angeles, to get Noor surgery that may let her see for the first time.

Read the whole story here.

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And now, check out The Few. The Proud. The Morons.

Hat tip: Instapundit.

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THANK YOU!

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A President's heavy heart...

bestowing the Medal of Honor (posthumously) to Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy.

















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the Medal of Honor.

"Lt. Murphy was shot in the back while transmitting the call for help, dropped the radio, fell over, and got back up and continued to transmit. He then went back to his position of cover and continued to fight. He did not survive the battle."

Hat tip: Powerline.

From Navy Times:

Murphy, known as “Mikey” to his friends and family, shot and wounded, managed to crawl onto a ridgeline and radio headquarters at the nearby air base for them to send in reinforcements. Taliban fighters were closing in on the team’s position, shooting their weapons and firing rocket-propelled grenades.

“Mikey was ignoring his wound and fighting like a SEAL officer should, uncompromising, steady, hard-eyed, and professional,” Luttrell wrote in his recently published book, Lone Survivor, about his military experiences, his team and the events of that day and the deaths of his teammates, his friends.

The fighting grew more intense, but the team pressed on in the close-quarters battle. At one point, Luttrell wrote, Murphy took his mobile phone, “walked to open ground. He walked until he was more or less in the center, gunfire all around him, and he sat on a small rock and began punching in the numbers to HQ.”

“I could hear him talking,” Luttrell wrote. “‘My men are taking heavy fire ... we’re getting picked apart. My guys are dying out here ... we need help.’

“And right then Mikey took a bullet straight in the back. I saw the blood spurt from his chest. He slumped forward, dropping his phone and his rifle. But then he braced himself, grabbed them both, sat upright again, and once more put the phone to his ear.

“‘Roger that, sir. Thank you,’” Luttrell heard Murphy say, before the lieutenant continued to train fire on the enemy fighters.

“Only I knew what Mikey had done. He’d understood we had only one realistic chance, and that was to call in help,” Luttrell wrote. “Knowing the risk, understanding the danger, in the full knowledge the phone call could cost him his life, Lieutenant Michael Patrick Murphy, son of Maureen, fiancé of the beautiful Heather, walked out into the firestorm.

“His objective was clear: to make one last valiant attempt to save his two teammates,” he wrote.

Not long after the call, Murphy was shot again, screaming for Luttrell to help him, but Luttrell, also hit and wounded, couldn’t reach him. "There was nothing I could do except die with him,” he wrote.

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