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Last October 22, Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL, became the first service member to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor during the more than six years of fighting in Afghanistan. A native of Patchogue, Long Island, Murphy was 29 when he gave his life trying to save his comrades in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan in 2005. His official recognition came in a White House ceremony two years and four months after he died, when President Bush gave the medal to his family.
Murphy had commanded a four-man team that was secretly gathering intelligence on a high-ranking Taliban leader.
According to a story originally reported in Newsday (New York), when a goat herder discovered the Navy SEALs' wooded, mountainside hideout, Murphy, as commanding officer, had to decide if they should let the herder go, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Navy SEAL honored for heroism in Afghanistan.(THE GOODNESS OF...