PO2 (EOD2) 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.
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 , SEALs were 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 p assed, 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 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, maybe you can bring attention to it by copying this and forwarding it to your friends and family. I am proud of our military and the men and women who serve in it. They represent the highest and finest values of this country. And Michael Monsoor epitomizes those values to the greatest degree.
God be with you Michael Monsoor! You are truly a hero to all of us and “Thank You” for serving our country so well!
Somewhere (Blackfive), someone posted the video of the Seal putting their Tridents into the wood of the casket. Hearing the noise of it adds even more to it…
I posted on this quite a while back.
http://downmysights.blogspot.com/2008/07/tribute-to-fallen-seal.html
Its good to see someone else paying attention to this tradition.
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Not to post negative, but the image shown of the coffin with the Seal Tridents on it is the wrong coffin for Michael Monsoor. That coffin in the picture belongs to PO2 Seal James E. Suh of SDVT-1 who died in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005, not Michael Monsoor’s coffin. It was found by Snopes.com:
http://froggyruminations.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archive.html
http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=79551
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/monsoor.asp
I think someone found it on the web and wanted to show a real example of what a Seal coffin looked like with the Trident pins embedded on the lid. From the reports I’ve heard from YouTube videos and read on other reports, President Bush was present and said the lid was covered with so many Trident pins it looked golden. I’ve been told it was a very moving part of the ceremony when the Seals put their pins on the coffin lid but I don’t know if it is traditional or not. But it appears that there was no picture made of Michael Monsoor’s coffin at the time. Just thought you’d like to know, so you don’t think this was Michael’s coffin in the picture. This mistaken picture has been all over the web and in emails, even on official news sites reporting on this incident. But I highly respect MA2 Seal Michael Monsoor for the sacrifice he made. God Bless Our Troops Everywhere!