{"id":3923,"date":"2008-04-09T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:54:35","slug":"navy-seal-who-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEAL who sacrificed his life to save others awarded Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Monsoor, 25, smothered a hand grenade with his own body to protect three other SEALS and three Iraqi soldiers<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=588,height=420,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/04\/08\/michael_monsoor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michael_monsoor\" height=\"214\" alt=\"Michael_monsoor\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/2008\/04\/08\/michael_monsoor.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From the <strong>Washington Post<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The East Room ceremony honoring Petty Officer 2nd Class <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/Michael+A.+Monsoor?tid=informline\"><span style=\"color: #0c4790;\">Michael A. Monsoor<\/span><\/a> was emotional. Bush wiped tears from his eyes and put his arm around Monsoor&#8217;s family as the Seal&#8217;s death was recounted &#8212; he threw himself onto a grenade to save two fellow Seals. &quot;We see his legacy in the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/Ramadi?tid=informline\"><span style=\"color: #0c4790;\">Ramadi<\/span><\/a>,&quot; Bush said, &quot;which has gone from one of the most dangerous places in Iraq to one of the most safest.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To read more, including the entire citation, go here:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/04\/08\/in-honor-of-michael-monsoor\/\">Michelle Malkin \u00bb In honor of Michael Monsoor<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Monsoor, 25, smothered a hand grenade with his own body to protect three other SEALS and three Iraqi soldiers From the Washington Post: The East Room ceremony honoring Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor was emotional. Bush wiped tears from his eyes and put his arm around Monsoor&#8217;s family as the Seal&#8217;s death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}