The first reports surfaced yesterday that deceased Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body while in Iraq in September 2006. Monsoor will be the second SEAL commando to be recognized with the nations' highest award for bravery since 2001. Monsoor's family will receive the medal in a White House ceremony April 8.
The are, however, at least two other men who have similarly sacrificed themselves to protect their comrades: Marine Sergeant Raphael Peralta (who died three and half years ago) and Army PFC Ross McGinnis (who died in December 2006), both of whom smothered grenades with their bodies. Neither has yet been awarded the Medal of Honor. It's reaching the point of embarrassment for the Marines and Peralta, taking twice as long as the normally glacial pace of verification.
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