Thanks, American media - thanks very much

Lt. Michael Murphy, while shot and wounded in Afghanistan, managed to crawl onto a ridgeline and radio headquarters at the nearby air base for them to send in reinforcements. He later died of his wounds. He will be awarded the Medal of Honor on Oct. 22.

More of his story here:

Did you know about this? Probably not -- it's not something the media wants you to know. This guy is getting the Medal of Honor. First navy guy to get one in 35 years.

He has the mostly the Un-American media to thank for his medal -- and the loss of his life and the lives of some others. But believe me, the media could not care less about their lives -- could not care less. But don't call them "unpatriotic."

Meanwhile -- one guy survived, Marcus Luttrell (above) -- and he wrote a book about it called -- "LONE SURVIVOR." Here's a some excerpts.

With the midday sun beating down on them near the top of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, four Navy SEALs faced an agonizing decision.

Their mission, to reconnoiter a village where a Taliban leader was thought to be holed up, had just been compromised by three goatherds who had almost tripped over the commandos. Now the SEALs were holding the goatherds — one a young teenager — at gunpoint and deciding whether to kill them or let them go.

None of the four SEALs had much experience in this situation. They were three months into the deployment and were already veterans of missions that Luttrell said numbered in the double figures. “We had never been compromised before,” Luttrell said. “That was a reputation that we were proud of, that we had never been walked on. But we got walked on this time.”

As Luttrell relates in “Lone Survivor,” Murphy first tried to raise the SEAL tactical operations center at Bagram on the radio for guidance. He couldn’t connect. Then Murphy made an “on-scene call”: He put the decision to a vote. He would not impose his decision on the others.

Axelson voted to kill them, Luttrell said. “We’re on active duty behind enemy lines, sent here by our senior commanders,” the book quotes him as saying. “We have a right to do everything we can to save our own lives. The military decision is obvious. To turn them loose would be wrong.”

Murphy voted to let the Afghans go. Dietz abstained. “I don’t really give a s--- what we do,” Dietz said, according to Luttrell. “You want me to kill ’em, I’ll kill ’em. Just give me the word. I only work here.”

Then, Luttrell said, Murphy then warned his men that if they killed the goatherds, they would have to report the deaths, and the Taliban would publicize them, as well.

“The U.S. liberal media will attack us without mercy,” Luttrell quotes Murphy as saying. “We will almost certainly be charged with murder.”

And then, according to the book, Lt. Murphy turned to Luttrell, the petty officer second class. “Marcus, I’ll go with you,” Murphy said. “Call it.”

They let them go -- and the goatherds turned them in.

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I can't believe that these guys have to worry about the enemy (media, politicians, Cindy Sheehands, etc) at home while they're in life-threatening situations overseas -- away from their families -- in VERY DIFFICULT circumstances. It disgusts me in a way you'll probably never know.