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  • Selfless Valor: Navy LT Michael P. Murphy

    10/22/2007 9:54:06 PM PDT · by neverdem · 17 replies · 207+ views
    American Thinker ^ | October 22, 2007 | John B. Dwyer
    In a White House ceremony today at 2:30 PM, President Bush will award a posthumous Medal of Honor to the family of Navy LT Michael P. Murphy.  For Operation Red Wing he led a 3-man SEAL recon team that was taken under fire by several dozen Taliban in June 2005.  When his commo man was wounded, Murphy had to expose himself to enemy fire to radio for a rescue chopper (shot down upon arrival; all aboard killed).  Though shot in the back while doing so, he completed that call and, multiply wounded, returned to the team, now engaged in a desperate battle.  Some 2 hours later, only one, Luttrell, remained alive.  There is...
  • Slain Patchogue [NY] sailor to get Medal of Honor

    10/11/2007 12:39:12 PM PDT · by SOLTC · 55 replies · 1,387+ views
    Newsday ^ | 10/11/07 | MARTIN C. EVANS
    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.