When Petty Officer Mike Monsoor, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade to save comrades was buried, his fellow SEALs gave a very touching and honor-filled tribute: as the wooden coffin passed through the ranks, each man would take his SEAL insignia and slap it down onto the coffin, embedding it in the wood:
By my count, 44 men paid this tribute to a fallen hero.
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