Mike Monsoor, an American Hero

Miss Bee forwarded an e-mail about Mike Monsoor’s funeral, that was not enough for me, with tears flowing I researched this great American……..

Michael Anthony Monsoor (April 5, 1981 – September 29, 2006) was a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during the Iraq War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Monsoor enlisted in the United States Navy in 2001 and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in 2004. After further training he was assigned to Delta Platoon, SEAL Team Three.

 

 

NO NAVY MEDAL

 

For service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY AND INTREPIDITY AT THE RISK OF HIS LIFE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY AS AUTOMATIC WEAPONS GUNNER FOR NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE TASK GROUP ARABIAN PENINSULA, IN SUPPORT OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2006. AS A MEMBER OF A COMBINED SEAL AND IRAQI ARMY SNIPER OVERWATCH ELEMENT, TASKED WITH PROVIDING EARLY WARNING AND STAND-OFF PROTECTION FROM A ROOFTOP IN AN INSURGENT HELD SECTOR OF AR RAMADI, IRAQ, PETTY OFFICER MONSOOR DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY HIS EXCEPTIONAL BRAVERY IN THE FACE OF GRAVE DANGER. IN THE EARLY MORNING, INSURGENTS PREPARED TO EXECUTE A COORDINATED ATTACK BY RECONNOITERING THE AREA AROUND THE ELEMENT’S POSITION. ELEMENT SNIPERS THWARTED THE ENEMY’S INITIAL ATTEMPT BY ELIMINATING TWO INSURGENTS. THE ENEMY CONTINUED TO ASSAULT THE ELEMENT, ENGAGING THEM WITH A ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADE AND SMALL ARMS FIRE. AS ENEMY ACTIVITY INCREASED, PETTY OFFICER MONSOOR TOOK POSITION WITH HIS MACHINE GUN BETWEEN TWO TEAMMATES ON AN OUTCROPPING OF THE ROOF. WHILE THE SEALS VIGILANTLY WATCHED FOR ENEMY ACTIVITY, AN INSURGENT THREW A HAND GRENADE FROM AN UNSEEN LOCATION, WHICH BOUNCED OFF PETTY OFFICER MONSOOR’S CHEST AND LANDED IN FRONT OF HIM. ALTHOUGH ONLY HE COULD HAVE ESCAPED THE BLAST, PETTY OFFICER MONSOOR CHOSE INSTEAD TO PROTECT HIS TEAMMATES.  INSTANTLY AND WITHOUT REGARD FOR HIS OWN SAFETY, HE THREW HIMSELF ONTO THE GRENADE TO ABSORB THE FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION WITH HIS BODY, SAVING THE LIVES OF HIS TWO TEAMMATES. BY HIS UNDAUNTED COURAGE, FIGHTING SPIRIT, AND UNWAVERING DEVOTION TO DUTY IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN DEATH, PETTY OFFICER MONSOOR GALLANTLY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY, THEREBY REFLECTING GREAT CREDIT UPON HIMSELF AND UPHOLDING THE HIGHEST TRADITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL SERVICE.

SIGNED GEORGE W. BUSH

I tip my hat to this Navy Seal, he chose to die so others could live……….

The Old Sarge

If you have minutes you will learn something??????

Found at 'FLOPPING ACES'

I found the following at "AB OL" BROAD'S RAMBLINGS" It just don't get any better.....

DNC: THE REAL PARTY OF NO – NO EQUALITY, NO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, NO SECURE BORDERS, NO ETHICS , NO RULE OF LAW, NO BI PARTISANSHIP, NO STRONG MILITARY, NO SALT, NO TRANS FAT. NO! NO! NO! NO!

AND, TO THE PARTY OF NO – MEET THE PARTY OF HELL NO!

We are in trouble

 

 

YES WE DO

Sharpton tries to lie, Orielly says no......

Don't you love it when someone will not let them lie.....

Italy revisited..........

I love to go to Europe, they have lots of old stuff and some of it is broken or ruined

But some of it just makes us simple folks blush.....

CLICK TO BIGIFY ALL PHOTOS

The video is nice while looking at the photos



Doris Day, it just will not get better than that....


I will never understand people who do things like this..

We did see some really old stuff, it is hard to believe this was built in 80 AD

80 AD, holy crap, no wonder it is falling down

We did enjoy our trip, I did have a problem with this sink, I had to stand on my knees..

There is some beautiful things, like this wall built from petrified wood

Oh yes, we did get to throw "Three Coins in the Fountain"

There is some beautiful old buildings like this, The Baptistry of St. John was built starting in 1152 and completed in 1363

By tilting the camera a little it appears to be leaning but.....

It really isn't the bell tower behind it is the leaning tower of Piza

Yes, that is a church in the distance, and the city of Siena, Italy

Not ruined, just old stone streets and very old buildings, Siena, Italy

Some things I just do not understand, how could someone write on a door that is over 1000 years old, Siena, Italy

I hope you enjoyed the little trip through Italy as much as we did......

"I'm 63 and I'm Tired" ‘GOOD READ’

 

by Robert A. Hall   
Robert  A. Hall is a Marine  Vietnam  veteran

I'm 63.  Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. 

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. 

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes."  Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

 
I'm tired of being told how bad  America  is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities  America  offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States  will have the economy of  Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of  China , the crime and violence of  Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people of  Iran , and the freedom of speech of  Venezuela .

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to. 

I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.

 
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln  wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government. 

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News?  Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

 
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let  Saudi Arabia  use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in  America , while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in  Saudi Arabia  to teach love and tolerance. 

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a  three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.

 
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next?  Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"?  And, no,  I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion.  I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need. 

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war?  You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave?  Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are?  Not even close.  So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

 
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in  Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet. 

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor. 

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing. 

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. 

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter. 

What a great point

Finding Pam said...

How old is YC? What have they been teaching them in school?

Sarge, keep passing on the history for some need to be reminded of it.

She is totally clueless. No wonder there are so many fools out there that will follow anyone.

Miss Pam is absolutely correct, Miss Yog is a product of the United States Education System, which is a colossal failure. It is designed to produce liberal thinking people, they no longer teach history, political science is biased to the left, holy crap, it is not Miss Yog's fault, she is just a continuation of the problem........

Follow the leader??????????

What if????????????

HISTORY LESSON PART III, “From where we came”

Tell me Miss Yog, What if the US Congress had been comprised of senators like Kennedy and McGovern during the Pacific battles of WWII.  I can hear Kennedy telling General MacArthur about his poor leadership, telling Harry Truman that our troops need to be withdrawn .  Telling him not to drop the bomb on Japan.

NAGASKI BEFORE AND AFTER

Did you know that your homeland was enslaved by the Japanese from 1910 to 1945?  I hope you have had the opportunity to visit Korea, one obvious thing you will see is the absence of trees on you land.  The Japanese cut them all down for building material in their homeland, they raped your country, I was last there in 1972 and it had not recovered from the plundering.  In 1945, at the end of WWII Korea was divided into two parts, north and south.

“WHAT IF” the Japanese were still there, where would you be, or your parents be?  FYI, they are not because of my fathers generation who was part of the Pacific Campaign. 

OH, if there is any doubt in your mind, your damn right, we were supposed to drop the Atomic Bombs.  My father came home from the Pacific because we did, he most likely would have died there if we did not.  Did you know that one in three of the Marines that fought in the Pacific died?

“WHAT IF” the United Nations (mostly American) soldiers had not came to South Korea’s aid in 1951?  Suppose it was Senator Kennedy, not PFC Kennedy, and he was telling the world we could not win in Korea, we should be withdrawn.

Would South Korea have more than one or two lights at night if Kim Jong Il was the dictator of both north and south.

“WHAT IF” your father was in Prison Camp #14 because he did not like something the government told him to do?

“WHAT IF” your mother was in prison camp #18, because she wanted to work on a pig farm? 

What would your life be Miss Yog, if we just stayed home in 1951?

I will answer that for you miss YogChick, you would not have been born and therefore would not be a pain in my ass.

THE END

AND ACTIONS HAVE RESULTS........

History lesson part II. In “From where we came” I told Miss Yog a little bit about the end of the Vietnam War. Trust me I will tie that to something that is very important to her.

President Bush Attends Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, Discusses War on Terror 8/22/2007

THIS IS ONLY A PORTION OF THE SPEECH, LINK IS ABOVE PHOTO FOR FULL SPEECH

Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left. There's no debate in my mind that the veterans from Vietnam deserve the high praise of the United States of America. Whatever your position is on that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like "boat people," "re-education camps," and "killing fields."

There was another price to our withdrawal from Vietnam, and we can hear it in the words of the enemy we face in today's struggle -- those who came to our soil and killed thousands of citizens on September the 11th, 2001. In an interview with a Pakistani newspaper after the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden declared that "the American people had risen against their government's war in Vietnam. And they must do the same today."

The Old Sarge says: OK folks, you see what President George W. Bush said, much of which has been ridiculed by the press and those on the left, did we add those words to our vocabulary...........

BOAT PEOPLE:

Yes Miss Yog, these of Asian People, like you, that left their homes looking for a better life.

Why Did Three Millions Vietnamese Leave their Homeland? Of that three million, did you know 25% died in stormy seas or were murdered by pirates on the high sea? Did you know these people knew the risk and elected to leave Vietnam in search of freedom?

From Wikipedia Thuye^`n Nhân: Boat People, term used to describe the Vietnamese refugees who fled Communist rule after the Vietnam War (1975) in small boats. More than one million people became refugees. Many perished, and others, upon reaching other Southeast Asian countries, discovered they could not remain permanently. The United States, Canada, and other nations accepted most of the refugees in the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was estimated that up to 25% of those who left Vietnam have perished in the stormy seas. Thousands have died when their boats were robbed repeatedly then sank by Thai's pirates. Many women and young girls were raped then murdered or sold to brothels in Thailand.

These people loaded on boats with little or no hope of survival but that was better than what they faced in Vietnam.

FYI Miss Yog, I have friends that were Boat People, I got my information first hand. One family spent 3 years in a refugee camp in the Philippines prior to coming to the USA. They went back to Vietnam to visit family and he made video’s of farmers in the rice fields to teach his children about his childhood. He lived in Mei Lai but was in a neighboring village when the massacre occurred. They now have two children enrolled in the University of Florida. He calls me Papa and his kids call me grandpa, you see, he is an Amerasian Child of the Vietnam War and had no idea who his father is. His mother told him his father was some guy named Bill, how sad is that. He adopted me. He worked for me for the last 10 years prior to my retirement.

REEDUCATION CAMPS

From Wikipedia

Reeducation camp (trại học tập cải tạo) is the official title given to the prison camps operated by the government of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War. In such "reeducation camps", the government imprisoned several hundred thousand former military officers and government workers from the former regime of South Vietnam. Reeducation as it was implemented in Vietnam was seen both as a means of revenge and a sophisticated technique of repression and indoctrination which developed for several years in the North and was extended to the South following the 1975 North Vietnam takeover.

Extra Training and Walking to School

The Killing Fields

From Wikipedia The Killing Fields were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Communist regime Khmer Rouge, which had ruled the country since 1975. Estimates of the number of dead range from 1.7 to 2.3 million out of a population of around 7 million. LINK

Did you know that the Khmer Rouge forced all of the people living in cities to move to the countryside where they were forced to work as peasants in the fields? Did you know that they taught the children to report their parents for violations of their rules? When reported the parents were killed. Did you know if they could speak English they were killed? Did you know that all of the educated people were killed? Did you know that all teachers were killed?

Yes Miss Yog, these were Asians, like you, from the killing fields of Cambodia, left by the United States of America to fend for themselves, it appears that they did not fair so well…….

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what is was once like in the United States where men were free." -President Ronald Reagan

The old Sarge Says: We have been down a bloody road in our history, it seems shameful to me that we would repeat the errors of our past, yet your elected officials are trying to do just that. Will America have the blood of millions more on our hands because America has lost its will to finish what has been started? The actions of Congress have results, are we going there again?

Yes Miss Yog, our actions had serious results for those we left behind.

WHAT IF???????

TO BE CONTINUED