SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor was due to rotate home soon. He'd been telling family and friends to get the parties going, because he'd be home for Halloween. Mike was a nut about All Hallow's Eve, and loved to dress in one get-up or another.
But Mike won't be attending any of them. He was killed on September 29th after jumping upon a grenade to save his companions. The photographs here include one that Mike sent back just recently, as well as one of him at last year's Halloween party where he went as a Blue's Brother.
It'd be fitting and proper for Mike to receive the Medal of Honor. No, Marines don't call it The Congressional Medal of Honor, and neither does the Department of the Navy, because Congress has little to do with it except rubber stamp a hero's just desserts. Michael Monsoor was such a man, and were he an officer the paperwork would already have been taken care of, but here's hoping that the brass finds it in their hearts to do the right thing.
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L.A. Times
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