There have been six U. S. servicemen awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during the War on Terror:
Cpl Jason L. Dunham, U. S. Marine Corps PFC Ross A. McGinnis, U. S. Army MA/2c Michael A. Monsoor, U. S. Navy SFC Jared C. Monti. U. S. Army Lt Michael P. Murphy, U. S. Navy SFC Paul Ray Smith, U. S. Army
We post the below videos in their honor. We pray for the day when the young men and women in the military receive the same recognition as our singers, actors, sports figures and politicians.
P. S. all six were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Posthumously (Killed in Action)
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill
We pray that the families of the six men above and all military families know that our country supports them. The best way to express that gratitude is reprinting a letter by President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War.......
"May they Rest in Peace"
Letter from then President Lincoln to the mother of five killed on the battle field:
Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
