Navy SEAL Wins Medal of Honor

If you look on the front pages of our nation's major newspapers you might learn that a loudmouth poseur and fabulists is set to win the Nobel Peace Prize but what you won't find is acknowledgement that Navy Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy has been awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor.

Lieutenant Murphy led a 4-man stick of Navy SEALs on a mission in Afghanistan. A mission that was ultimately compromised by their humanity. In the ensuing firefight three of the SEALs, including Lt. Murphy were killed. Eight more SEALs and eight soldiers were killed when their MH-47 was hit by a rocket propelled grenade and crashed.

Whether this wasn't newsworthy in the view of some pencil neck editor or part of a worldview that only thinks bad behavior by US forces worth reporting or indicative of a culture that can no longer bring itself to acknowledge sacrifice and heroism is immaterial. The fact that a young man could win the nation's highest award for valor, posthumously, and receive only passing attention (less than one column-inch in the Washington Post) is a sad commentary on the country he died defending.

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