if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Mike Murphy
by Hal_10000
Let’s see if this true American hero gets 1% of the attention accorded to a celebuskank who has “forgotten" her panties mailed her undies to Burma:
Two years after he was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan, Dan and Maureen Murphy and their son John on Monday received Lt. Murphy’s Medal of Honor for heroism on the battlefield from President Bush.
Murphy’s honor is the first to be awarded from the war in Afghanistan. Two Medals of Honor have been awarded to soldiers serving in Iraq.
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In June 2005, Murphy, 29, led his four-man Navy SEAL team into the 10,000-foot peaks of Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush to search for a terrorist thought to be in the region. But they were soon spotted and started taking fire from more than 40 insurgents.
According to a Navy report on the incident, the insurgents held the advantage of terrain and launched a well organized, three-sided attack on the team, forcing them deeper into a ravine.
All four men were soon wounded, said the SEAL team’s lone survivor, Petty Officer 2nd Class Marcus Luttrell.
Murphy exposed himself to enemy fire while trying to keep his team together, Luttrell said.
“He was in a horrible position. He left himself open so he could move back and forth to each individual guy.”
The mountainous terrain blocked communications. The team’s communications operator was wounded as he tried to find an area to transmit from. According to the Navy report, Murphy moved into the open and “calmly provided his unit’s location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team.”
The report said that at one point Murphy was hit in the back and dropped the handset but retrieved it and completed his call, even saying “thank you” at the end of his transmission.
Luttrell witnessed Murphy’s heroism.
“I looked back up at Mikey and he took two rounds to the back and sat back up, hung up the phone. ... That was the last time I saw him.”
This was not some 18-year-old hotdog who thought he was invincible. This was a 29-year-old man who knew he was going to get killed and did it anyway. Whenever people tell me America is declining and that our questions about Iraq mean we are wussified, I think of men like Mike Murphy, who was killed trying to save his men and radio in the position of the enemy.
There’s also this encouraging nugget:
[Luttrell] was rescued by local villagers who refused demands by the Taliban to turn him over and later got word to a Marine outpost.
One thing I will say about the Afghans - they know heroism when they see it.
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One thing I will say about the Afghans - they know heroism when they see it.
Yeah, if it’s one thing those medieval sand niggers have in spades, it’s the ability to recognize heroism.
Posted by hazehead on 10/23/07 at 02:38 PM from United States
One thing I will say about the Afghans - they know heroism when they see it.
Yeah, if it’s one thing those medieval sand niggers have in spades, it’s the ability to recognize heroism.
WTF is this shit?
it’s the ability to recognize heroism.
Of course, to a liberal; “heroism” is writing an article in the college paper calling Bush a “fucker” or defending the right of NAMBLA to distribute “how to” guides on seducing young boys.
A SEAL sacrificing his life for his team and country? Eh, whatever.
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"[Luttrell] was rescued by local villagers who refused demands by the Taliban to turn him over and later got word to a Marine outpost.”
If that’s the group of Afghanis I’ve read about before, they have a very strict code of honor—when they take people under their care, they refuse to turn them over to *whoever* is looking for them. They’ve shielded Americans from the Taliban, but they’ve also shielded Taliban from Americans.