If he wants to see bitter, he should try taking away their guns.
Michael A. Monsoor, of Garden Grove, Calif., became a Navy SEAL in 2004. In 2006, he deployed to Iraq. He won his first medal, a Silver Star, in May, for running through enemy fire in Ramadi to pull a wounded SEAL to safety. “We knew if anything were to happen,” his sister said, “Mike would be the first to jump in and try to fix it or solve it.” Four months later, a guerrilla threw a grenade onto a Ramadi rooftop where Monsoor and three other SEALs were positioned. He was closest to the only exit, and knew his comrades would not reach it in time. So he threw himself on the grenade and died of his wounds half an hour later. President Bush has just awarded him the Medal of Honor. “Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Civil War veteran, in an 1884 Decoration Day speech. “We have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade, and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord, and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart.”
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