Navy SEAL Saves Life

I brought this over from one of my other blogs, because I think it deserves extra attention… 

I was reading this on Yahoo news and thought it deserved mention here. A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said.

It goes on to say…

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor had been near the only door to the rooftop structure Sept. 29 when the grenade hit him in the chest and bounced to the floor……..He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it,” said a 28-year-old lieutenant who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. “He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs’ lives, and we owe him 

The full article can be found here at Yahoo news.

I wanted to comment on this. Thank you to the men and women who put theirselves on the line for us daily. Thank you to the brave men and women who do something I don’t think I could ever do. How they face grave danger and choose to protect others, rather than run away…it humbles me. If a grenade landed near me, my only thought would be to run I suspect, unless my family was there, and then i guess my instincts would kick in. That’s the thing I guess, these men and women become a family…a family so tight, a bond so strong, that they die for each other. There is a new movie coming out called the “Flags of our Fathers” and one of the small comments that the announcer says really caught my attention and reminds me of what the man did…”The soldiers fought for their country, but died for their friends.”

May much peace and love be around this brave man and his family in their time of sorrow.