Valor like this still has the power to stir the most cynical men to a reverent silence.
Rest in peace, sailor.
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Well done Petty Officer Monsoor. I doubt you'll be soon forgotten.
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quote: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
Looks like he had a way out, yet he still did what he did.
Valor indeed.
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Rest in peace shipmate.
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I can't find my box of tissues... I am weeping.
Rest in peace, Soldier Brave...
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Wow.. I had always sorta thought this was one of those things that hapened in movies, you know where the grenade takes like twenty or thrirty seconds to go off and the guy has time to give his CO one last look and the CO screams "Nooo!" then he jumps.
Brave guy, too bad he's gone.
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It's a testament to the bond that forms between soldiers.
Take the case of Private William McFadzean of the Royal Ulster Rifles; when a box of grenades was dropped in a crowded trench and two of the grenade pins fell out, "[he] realizing the danger to his comrades, with heroic courage threw himself on top of the bombs... [which] exploded, blowing him to pieces, but only one other man was injured. He well know his danger, being himself a bomber, but without a moment's hesitation he gave his life for his comrades" (London Gazette, 16 September 1916).
With both Michael Monsoor and William McFadzean, the key is that they both acted instantly to save their comrades.
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Rather bizzarley one of my great-uncles did that on a training excersise during the Second World War. He was training new recruits to shrow grenades when one of them fumbled and dropped his in the trench.
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