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Poppajohn is just gettin too damn old, he can’t take it anymore.

Saturday in my local paper there was a story about a former soldier P.F.C. Joseph Dwyer

who had volunteered as a medic and participated in the original Iraqui Freedom Campaign and the incredibly successful run up to Baghdad which had been orchestrated by my old classmate T.R. Franks. He had been photographed rescuing an Iraqui child that had been injured by shrapnel and had been treated as the hero that he was although he always deflected that by turning it to the other guys who he said deserved that accolade more. He had a wife and baby daughter he obviously loved very much. Heroism turned to tragedy after the young man returned home suffering from ptsd he could not cope with the images from the combat and imagining the enemy all around him. He simply went downhill until he ended up abusing inhalants until he died alone without his family, no friends, no anything. Terribly tragic and on the front page. We must do something to see to it that our returning heroes do not have something like this happen to them. Not a fitting end for a legitimate hero and such an obviously fine man.

The same day I received an e-mail with the following story about a local hero from Garden Grove, CA.:

This much I knew. 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.

This I did not know. 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, forty five of his fellow SEALs were lined up on both sides 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 SEAL gold
Trident Insignia 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 also at least as much as PFC Dwyers’ tragic story.
Since the major portion of the mainstream media won’t make this news, I can at
least blog it. I am proud of our military. I am certain that you are also proud of them.
We can all rest assured that the fine men and women of our military will continue to
serve and die with honor. God bless all the PFC Dwyers and PO2 Monsoors. Where do
we get such men?

Always carry personal protection, be aware and have a plan.
Poppajohn

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