Happy Fourth of July Chiefs Chief Monyahan in BAT 49 Alaska sent the story to me and I thought it should be shared with our membership. PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, A US Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals. During Mike's funeral in San Diego, as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to grave site in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Seal's lined up on both side of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each Seal having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in Mike's wooden coffin, The slaps were audible from across the cemetery. By the time the coffin reach the grave side it looked as though it had gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off to this great warrior hero. This holiday weekend we should all take time to remember the men and women like Mike who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom. There is not enough paper in the America to list the names of those Americans, but some how we know who they all are. We should take the time to thank our Armed Service members currently serving America, both in the United States and overseas and wish them a safe return to home, and thank our veterans who have returned to their homes and are now able to share with all of us, the shelter of the very umbrella of freedom they held high for us all now to enjoy. We salute everyone of them! GOD BLESS AMERICA !