Posted on 07/20/2018 7:11:22 AM PDT by GonzoII
A memorial to slain Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Michael P. Murphy was smashed to pieces at a New York lake, outraging locals and veterans.
A police report was filed Thursday with Suffolk County Police who said in a statement they were investigating a recent act of vandalism at Lt. Michael P. Murphy Memorial Park in Lake Ronkonkoma, where Murphy once worked as a lifeguard.
A granite stone at the park was inscribed with the fallen SEALs image and part of his Medal of Honor citation. A police photo posted to Facebook showed the smooth circular stone shattered into more than a dozen pieces. A $2,500 reward is being offered through Crime Stoppers for information leading to the arrest of the culprit, the police said.
A matching reward was offered on Instagram by former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who served with Murphy and wrote about his heroism in his book Lone Survivor.
Only a coward would do this, Luttrell said of the vandalism in the social media post late Thursday that included the police photo of the damage.
More than 2,000 people had commented on Luttrells post by Friday morning, many expressing outrage or a desire to help fundraise for a new plaque.
Murphy, 29 and a native of nearby Patchogue, N.Y., was killed in Afghanistans Kunar province in late June 2005, during Operation Red Wings, which Luttrell barely survived.
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[Id like to do the same to the vandals face.]
They caught a 14 year old boy.
$1 says that’s an apple that didn’t fall far from the tree.
How smart must one be to piss off the entire SEAL community? This little antifa jack hole is about to find out.
This is disgusting but so typical of the disrespect for our Nation, our history, our Heroes, and our President currently being encouraged by Democrat leadership. They all should be deported along with the illegal invaders that they love so much.
MS-14
Continuing the Obama’s mandate to change our history and tradition.
Must be those ‘tolerant’ liberals again... expressing their hatred for traditional Americans. Next they’ll be bashing our brains in... or trying to... Violent thugs and the goons in our ‘intelligence services’ will be pretending NOT to notice...
More bullshit courtesy the dmocraps.
Had some punks vandalizing a VFW WWII monument. The vets set up an ambush. The vandals, high school kids, were caught. Despite some minor cuts and bruises the punks suffered while getting restrained, the sheriff thanked the vets for turning them over alive. The sheriff gave the vandals the task of polishing the granite memorial and planting flowers or face criminal charges.
If I said what ought to be done with the little SOB, I’d probably be banned.
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