The moving military funeral of Navy SEAL Mike Monsoor-Truth!

The Moving Funeral of Petty Officer Mike Monsoor-Truth!

Summary of the eRumor:
The eRumor describes the funeral of Navy petty officer Mike Monsoor, who lost is own life in Iraq to save the lives of other Navy SEALs. At his funeral in San Diego, California, SEALs lined up on both sides of the route of the pallbearers and loudly slapped gold tridents from their uniforms on the wooden casket as a tribute to their fallen comrade.

The Truth:
The story is true and, despite the comment about not being reported by the media, was given coverage by several news outlets across the U.S. including Fox news.

Monsoor was killed in Iraq in 2006 and was awarded the Medal of Honor in April. His funeral took place in July, 2008 at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.

Other Navy SEALs lined the procession and placed the tridents from their uniforms on the casket. The trident is a U.S. Navy special warfare badge worn by SEALs. It represents the three aspects of SEAL special operations, sea, air, and land.

He died after throwing himself on a grenade to prevent it from killing others whom he had been assigned to protect on a rooftop.

Updated 7/18/08

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

NAVY PETTY OFFICER MIKE MONSOOR

PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a 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 Monsoor's funeral in San Diego , as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery , SEALs were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of twos, 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 the wooden coffin.

The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.

This should be front-page news instead of the crap we see every day.

Since the media won't make this news, I choose to make it news by forwarding it onto you guys. I am proud of our military and the men and women who serve in it. They represent the highest and finest values of this country.

The liberal media never reports this type thing please forward it to a few of yourï friends...

God bless the men and women in our Sea Services.