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--> Conservative thoughts on politics, war, law, bioethics, pop culture, and humor. Medal of Honor: LT Michael Murphy, USN By The Puddle Pirate (10:11 AM Oct 12, 2007) | 0 Comments | TrackBack URL | Blog reactions A Navy SEAL will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor on October 22. Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy is the third man to receive America's highest military award for valor in the War on Terror. U.S. Navy press release: Murphy was the officer-in-charge of the SEAL element, which was tasked with locating a high- level Taliban militia leader to provide intelligence for a follow-on...

Every major daily paper in New York took note of President Bush's deci sion to bestow the first Medal of Honor of Operation Enduring Freedom on Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy - a Long Islander who gave his life for his country and his fellow SEALs. Every paper but one, that is.

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The White House announced Oct. 11 that the family of U.S. Navy SEAL, Lt. Michael P. Murphy will be presented the U.S. Navy Medal of Honor, awarded posthumously, during a ceremony at the White House Oct. 22. The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Murphy’s father, Daniel, will accept the award on behalf of his son. Murphy will receive the award for his extraordinary, selfless heroism and steadfast courage while...

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush will grant the nation's highest military honor to Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL from Patchogue who was killed on a mountainside in Afghanistan as he tried to save his fellow warriors in June 2005, the White House announced Thursday.

The American eagle that adorns the pin worn by the elite Navy SEALs is a bit different from the ones you usually see on military regalia. Unlike its brethren birds with their proud heads held high, the SEALs' eagle's head is lowered. Bowed. In tribute. In memoriam. In homage to the unit's honored dead. Such as Lt. Michael Murphy of Patchogue, L.I., slain at 29 in Afghanistan and now a candidate for the nation's highest military citation, the Medal of Honor. Murphy had worn that pin. He also wore an FDNY T-shirt, in memory of the Bravest who fell on...

War didn't scare heroic Navy SEAL Michael Murphy. What really scared him was popping the question to his girlfriend of five years, Heather Duggan. Murphy, a Long Islander who achieved his childhood dream of becoming a SEAL only to be killed last month in Afghanistan, had carried the Tiffany engagement ring in his pocket for four months. He finally got down on bended knee before Duggan at the tree in Rockefeller Center on the day after Christmas 2003

When Lt. Michael P. Murphy realized his dream of joining the elite Navy Seals, his parents, Maureen, a teacher, and Daniel, a Vietnam veteran and law clerk to a judge, hung an American flag in the front window of their Long Island home. "The flag is hanging there for him, so when you'd drive by, you'd think about Mike," said a neighbor in Patchogue. And when he went on hazardous overseas duty, she said, his mother "was concerned for his safety, how dangerous the job was." Lieutenant Murphy, 29, was reported missing on June 28, while on a secret antiterrorism...