I BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS IN THE NEWSPAPER OR ON THE 6 O'CLOCK NEWS...
"The Congressional Medal Of Honor" to one of our national heros for giving his life in Iraq, as he dove on, and covered with his own body a live hand grenade that was accidentally dropped, and thus saving the lives of a large group of companions that were passing by!
During the funeral at in San Diego, California, the six pallbearers removed the rosewood casket from the hearse, and lined up on each side of the casket with his family members, friends, fellow companions, and well-wishers.
The column of people continued from the hearse all the way to the grave site. What the group didn't know at the time was that every Navy Seal (45 to be exact), that this hero Saved that day, were scattered through-out the column!
Each time the casket passed a Navy Seal, he would remove his gold Trident Pin from his uniform, and sap it down hard, causing the gold Trident Pin to embed itself into the top of the wooden casket! Then the Navy Seal would step back from the column and Salute!
Now for all of us who don't Know what a Trident Pin is, or what it looks like; after one completes the Basic Navy Seals Program which lasts for three weeks, and is followed by Seal Qualification Training, which is 15 more weeks of training and is necessary to continue improving basic skills and to learn new tactics and techniques required for an assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon.
After the successful completion or the courses, trainees are given their naval enlisted code, and are awarded The Navy Seal Trident Pin. With This Gold Pin they are now officially Navy Seal's!
It was said that you could hear each of the 45 slaps from across the cemetery! By the time the rosewood casket reached the grave site, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident Pins that lined the top!
This was a fitting end to an eternal send-off for a warrior hero! This event should be front-page news instead of the garbage we listen to and see every day.
I am proud of all the branches of our military.
"GOD BLESS AND KEEP OUR TROOPS SAFE!"
"The Congressional Medal Of Honor" to one of our national heros for giving his life in Iraq, as he dove on, and covered with his own body a live hand grenade that was accidentally dropped, and thus saving the lives of a large group of companions that were passing by!
During the funeral at in San Diego, California, the six pallbearers removed the rosewood casket from the hearse, and lined up on each side of the casket with his family members, friends, fellow companions, and well-wishers.
The column of people continued from the hearse all the way to the grave site. What the group didn't know at the time was that every Navy Seal (45 to be exact), that this hero Saved that day, were scattered through-out the column!
Each time the casket passed a Navy Seal, he would remove his gold Trident Pin from his uniform, and sap it down hard, causing the gold Trident Pin to embed itself into the top of the wooden casket! Then the Navy Seal would step back from the column and Salute!
Now for all of us who don't Know what a Trident Pin is, or what it looks like; after one completes the Basic Navy Seals Program which lasts for three weeks, and is followed by Seal Qualification Training, which is 15 more weeks of training and is necessary to continue improving basic skills and to learn new tactics and techniques required for an assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon.
After the successful completion or the courses, trainees are given their naval enlisted code, and are awarded The Navy Seal Trident Pin. With This Gold Pin they are now officially Navy Seal's!
It was said that you could hear each of the 45 slaps from across the cemetery! By the time the rosewood casket reached the grave site, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident Pins that lined the top!
This was a fitting end to an eternal send-off for a warrior hero! This event should be front-page news instead of the garbage we listen to and see every day.
I am proud of all the branches of our military.
"GOD BLESS AND KEEP OUR TROOPS SAFE!"
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