i had a "world wide suicide" moment expierience. . .

angryyoungman

i was friends with mike murphy in high school. we played football together, trained together during the summer. he was a good kid. we kind of lost touch after high school, saw him around at the gym once. . . i knew he had gone to penn state, didnt know he had joined the navy afterwards and then became a navy seal, ascending to the level of lieutenant. and then one day a year and a half ago i walked into a seven-eleven for a bottle of water and saw his high school yearbook photo on the cover of newsday, along with a story which told of how he was killed in a gun battle in afganastan. it was such a shocker. even though i hadnt seen him in a while, it saddened me greatly. i felt obligated to go to his wake, and ive never seen so many people in such a small place as this small funeral home. . .anyways i just had a flashback of it today because he's on the cover of newsday again today(with the headline "HERO") , this time because he's being considered for the congressional medal of honor, the highest honor they can bestow on you in the military.


http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/

" I felt the earth on monday, move beneath my feet
in the form of a morning paper, layed out for me to see
saw his face in a color picture, i recoginized the name
could not stop starin at the face id never see again. . ."

keeponrockin

Wow. I can't imagine what that would feel like.

angelica

angryyoungman wrote:

i was friends with mike murphy in high school. we played football together, trained together during the summer. he was a good kid. we kind of lost touch after high school, saw him around at the gym once. . . i knew he had gone to penn state, didnt know he had joined the navy afterwards and then became a navy seal, ascending to the level of lieutenant. and then one day a year and a half ago i walked into a seven-eleven for a bottle of water and saw his high school yearbook photo on the cover of newsday, along with a story which told of how he was killed in a gun battle in afganastan. it was such a shocker. even though i hadnt seen him in a while, it saddened me greatly. i felt obligated to go to his wake, and ive never seen so many people in such a small place as this small funeral home. . .anyways i just had a flashback of it today because he's on the cover of newsday again today(with the headline "HERO") , this time because he's being considered for the congressional medal of honor, the highest honor they can bestow on you in the military.


http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/

" I felt the earth on monday, move beneath my feet
in the form of a morning paper, layed out for me to see
saw his face in a color picture, i recoginized the name
could not stop starin at the face id never see again. . ."

Thanks for sharing this story, and for introducing me to Mike Murphy.

blackredyellow

Thanks for the story...

Here's a link to the actual story, which i really an amazing one...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-enseal0201,0,4864775.story

jeffbr

Thanks for sharing the story. Tragic. And the WWS lyrics you posted are incredibly moving, reading them in this context.

CJMST3K

my understanding is that military solutes whomever the president is, and with congressional medal winners are the only ones the president has to solute first.

my condolences. I'm glad he will be recognized for his service.

RavennaSeattle1911

im sorry he died

and im sorry bush is such a liar and we live in a country that financed saddam to begin with and cant manage the weapons and cities there in iraq and afgahnistan but we stay anyway