Like many of you, I have been following the media coverage of the Medal of Honor being posthumously awarded to Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy.
Were it not for Marcus Luttrell surviving the gunbattle, the story of that SEAL team would not have been told.
Even more telling, is that had if the winds of what Julius Caeser called the 'Fortunes of War' and Clauswitz' called 'Chance' had blown another dirction--no one would know Lt. Murphy or Mr. Luttrell or the men of that SEAL team.
A firefight from which every U.S. service member lives is not news in eyes of the media.
A successful operation is not news to the legacy media.
If the team had survived the fight, they would be decorated and their medals would have the 'V' or valor device.
The only ink denoting that mission would be on the after action reports and award citations.
Even with the Medal of Honor being awarded and a best selling book, too few Americans know the story.
Only a handful of Americans can even recall one story of valor and heroism from this war on terror.
When was the last time you read in the newspaper or saw on TV the story of successful mission?
Well, you are about to watch one now.
Click on the link.
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