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Seal of Honor - Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt Michael P Murphy, USN (Paperback)
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Seal of Honor - Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt Michael P Murphy, USN (Paperback)
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Lt.Michael Patrick Murphy, a Navy SEAL, earned the Medal of Honor
on 28 June 2005 for his bravery during a fierce fight with the
Taliban in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The first
to receive the nation's highest military honor for service in
Afghanistan, Lt. Murphy was also the first naval officer to earn
the medal since the Vietnam War, and the first SEAL to be honored
posthumously. A young man of great character, he is the subject of
Naval Special Warfare courses on character and leadership, and an
Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, naval base, school,
post office, ball park, and hospital emergency room have been named
in his honor.
A bestselling book by the sole survivor of Operation Red Wings,
Marcus Luttrell, has helped make Lt. Murphy's SEAL team's fateful
encounter with the Taliban one of the Afghan war's best known
engagements. Published on the 5th anniversary of the engagement,
SEAL of Honor also tells the story of that fateful battle, but it
does so from a very different perspective being focused on the life
of Lt. Murphy. This biography uses his heroic action during this
deadly firefight in Afghanistan, as a window on his character and
attempts to answer why Lt. Murphy readily sacrificed his life for
his comrades. SEAL of Honor is the story of a young man, who was
noted by his peers for his compassion and for his leadership being
guided by an extraordinary sense of duty, responsibility, and moral
clarity.
In tracing Lt. Murphy's journey from a seemingly ordinary life on
New York's Long Island, to that remote mountainside a half a world
away, SEAL of Honor will help readers understand how he came to
demonstrate the extraordinary heroism and selfless leadership that
earned him the nation's highest military honor. Moreover, the book
brings the Afghan war back to the home front, focusing on Lt.
Murphy's tight knit family and the devastating effect of his death
upon them as they watched the story of Operation Red Wings unfold
in the news. The book attempts to answer why Lt. Murphy's service
to his country and his comrades was a calling faithfully answered,
a duty justly upheld, and a life, while all too short, well lived.
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