This SHOULD be front-page news...

**LittleGrizzly** · 12-08-2008, 10:29

This guy is deserving of all the respect in the world, he is the best of humanity, my hero!

**HoreTore** · 12-08-2008, 10:36

Uhm.... You want this story on the front page? Do you hate him, or something?

Seriously, you want someone/something you admire on a front page next to "CELEBRITY: I was NARCOTICS-JAILED after BOOB-SEX!"*....?

*actual front page story I saw a few days ago...

**Tribesman** · 12-08-2008, 12:21

This should be front-page news on every newspaper in the United States

Why ?

but it won't be because the media is unwilling to tell the American people about heroes like PO2 Monsoor.

No , all the nationals and many of the locals covered the story so they were not unwilling to tell the story .
So why should it be front page news ?

**KukriKhan** · 12-08-2008, 14:18

This item has been making the email rounds since this past summer (I received it 3 times myself).

A few details bear clearing-up:

-M. Monsoor DID die in Iraq, smothering a live grenade, 29 September 2006
-he WAS buried at Fort Rosecrans Nat'l Cemetery, here in San Diego 12 October 2006
-his funeral WAS attended by fellow SEAL's, who slapped their Trident insignia on the casket
-he WAS awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions, in April 2008

-his actual rank WAS NOT "EOD2", but MA2
-The photo of the Trident-encrusted casket WAS NOT Monsoor's, but that of James Suh, another SEAL buried July 2005 at LA's Forest Lawn Cemetery, also attended by fellow SEAL's and many others.
-Attaching Tridents to the caskets of fallen SEAL's is a long-standing SEAL tradition
-Fox News, Navy Times, The LA Times and others, DID report the grenade-smothering incident, and the award of the CMH. The incident was also noted here in the backroom.

None of which can possibly add or subtract from the significance of Monsoor's sacrifice. Rest In Peace, Brother.

Just wanted to set the record straight, before the arguments continue.

**Tribesman** · 12-08-2008, 15:00

This item has been making the email rounds since this past summer

Yes it is like some sort of conspiracy theory about the damn liberal media who don't report on stuff like this even though they do report it.
So the question is why should it be front page news ?
Is his death any more tragic than the thousands of other deaths ?
Is it more earth shatteringly newsworthy that its just gotta take the front spread ?
Are the same people moaning about this the same people that moaned when the media showed flag draped coffins being shipped home ?
Did the administration put restrictive (but not binding)guidelines on reporting and portraying deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan in the media ?
Didn't the media get stung with a couple of high profile front page stories that were touted by the administration as showing heroic sacrifice and dedicated service that turned out to be bollox ?

All this is is an attempt by some to get some sort of feelgood factor out of yet another tragedy in a pointless and futile endeavour and apportion some blame on the non-reporting that doesn't even exist except in their little conspiracy theory .

**Strike For The South** · 12-08-2008, 16:00

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Yes it is like some sort of conspiracy theory about the damn liberal media who don't report on stuff like this even though they do report it.
So the question is why should it be front page news ?
Is his death any more tragic than the thousands of other deaths ?
Is it more earth shatteringly newsworthy that its just gotta take the front spread ?
Are the same people moaning about this the same people that moaned when the media showed flag draped coffins being shipped home ?
Did the administration put restrictive (but not binding)guidelines on reporting and portraying deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan in the media ?
Didn't the media get stung with a couple of high profile front page stories that were touted by the administration as showing heroic sacrifice and dedicated service that turned out to be bollox ?

All this is is an attempt by some to get some sort of feelgood factor out of yet another tragedy in a pointless and futile endeavour and apportion some blame on the non-reporting that doesn't even exist except in their little conspiracy theory .

You are a real buzz kill. I thought the Irish were supposed to be jolly drunks not embittered jaded ones. You sir have shattered my fragile world.

**Tribesman** · 12-08-2008, 16:13

You are a real buzz kill.

Look on the bright side Strike , how much would you be buzzing if every day for the past 7 years all your newspapers had frontpage stories of all those killed and maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan ?
I mean maybe they didn't all die like heroes and get a nice bit of special metal for it but their sacrifice and loss is just the same and just as newsworthy .