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| AP 2004: Navy SEAL Michael A. Monsoor on a cold-weather training mission in Kodiak, Alaska. |
MA2 Michael Monsoor was the only one who could have escaped the room when a grenade was tossed into it. Instead of running, he leapt upon it, shielding his partners from its blast.
It took his life.
For his heroic sacrifice, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor:
In an East Room ceremony, Bush presented the nation’s highest military honor to Monsoor’s still-grieving parents, Sally and George Monsoor. About 250 guests, including his sister and two brothers, fellow SEALS, other Medal winners, many friends and GOP Sen. John McCain and other members of Congress, looked on quietly.
“The Medal of Honor is awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it,” Bush said. “Yet those who knew Michael Monsoor were not surprised when he did.”
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“His teammates liked to laugh about the way his shiny Corvette would leave everybody in the dust,” Bush said. “But deep down, they always knew Mike would never leave anybody behind when it counted.”
A true American hero: Michael Monsoor.
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