Mike Monsoor
was awarded "The Congressional Medal Of Honor" for giving his
life in Iraq. Petty Officer Monsoor jumped on and cover, with his
body, a live hand grenade that was accidentally dropped by a Navy Seal
which saved the lives of a large group of Navy Seals that were passing by.
During Mike Monsoor's funeral at Fort
Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego California, the six pallbearers
removed the rosewood casket from the hearse and lined up on each side
of the casket were his family members, friends, fellow sailors and
well-wishers. The column of people continued from the hearse all the
way to the grave site. What the group didn't know at the time was
that every Navy Seal (45 to be exact) were in this column.
As the pallbearers carried the rosewood
casket down the column of people leading to the graves site, the column
would collapse which formed a group of people that followed behind.
Every time the casket would pass a Navy
Seal he would remove his gold Trident Pin from his uniform and slap it
down hard into the top of the casket causing it to be imbedded into the
wood. Then that Navy Seal would step back, stand at attention and
salute Petty Office Monsoor.
The basic Navy Seals program lasts for three
weeks. This is then followed by a Seal qualification training for
another 15 weeks while improving basic skills and learning new tactics and
techniques required for an assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon. Upon
successful completion of the program, the trainees are given their Naval
Enlisted Code and are awarded the Navy Seal Trident Pin. They are
now officially Navy Seals.
It was said that you could hear each of the 45
slaps from across the cemetery. By the time the casket reached the
grave site, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident
Pins.
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