Posted on 03/30/2023 4:48:35 AM PDT by nuconvert
Douglas “Mike” Day, a highly decorated U.S. Navy SEAL who survived being shot 27 times while deployed to Iraq, passed away earlier this week on March 27. Day served 21 years in the Navy and later worked as an author and an advocate for wounded military veterans.
On April 6, 2007, Day was nearing the end of a deployment to the Anbar province of Iraq, and leading his SEAL platoon on a raid against an al Qaeda cell in the city of Fallujah. With two Iraqi scouts behind him, Day breached the door of a room and was immediately struck with multiple bullets, knocking his rifle out of his hands.
“I took a left-hand turn and they just started shooting at me,” Day said on the Team Never Quit podcast in 2020.
Falling to the ground, Day transitioned to his pistol and shot one of the four terrorists in the room. As a second man pulled the pin on a grenade and began running towards the hallway, Day killed him as well. The grenade fell to the ground and detonated, wounding Day with the shrapnel. He briefly lost consciousness, but when he awoke he continued engaging the other men in the room, shooting them with his pistol even as he was struck yet again multiple times from less than 10 feet away with AK-47 fire.
“After I realized that I actually was getting shot, my second thought was, ‘God get me home to my girls,’ and then extreme anger,” Day told Fox News in 2015. “Then I just went to work. It was muscle memory. I just did what I was trained to do.”
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Sad. RIP.
Well, it is true it does that. I disagree. I think it can heal some wounds. And I say that from personal experience.
I don’t think that is a bad thing. Sometimes I wish it were less time.
We send young men, and not so young men, off to ugly places and order them to do ugly things on our behalf.
They don’t come back unchanged.
It’s only right that we give them the best support possible upon their return.
Time may heal wounds, but the scars remain.
You learn to live with it.
Or not.
Sometimes you need help learning to live with it. Sometimes a lot of help.
Don’t be afraid to ask. Don’t be slow to give.
Maybe you should have taken the time to post your citation link.
And by the way, there are other search engines that don't share everything with China, so why give google an advertisement?
Double P.
Hi, TBM! Long time, no see. Hope you are well!
Your upthread apology to nuconvert was classy. I took exception, however, to his tone in lecturing you to search for his cause of death online. But I, too, am sorry for the distress nuconvert says was feeling. This is making many of us weep.
Must you have painted a picture for us?
Very good advice, FRiends...:)
Very good advice.
I think the picture is being painted all over the internet. It is what it is.
What’s always lost in sad stories such as this is the incredible level of support and skill of the members of the medivac community which were able to keep this man alive and get him out of country and safely to Germany for treatment.
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