On heroes
Posted at 8:00 AM on September 6, 2009
by Bob Collins
(1 Comments)
Filed under: War
Later this month, a 30-year old staff sergeant from Massachusetts will receive the Medal of Honor. Posthumously.
He's only the sixth recipient since the September 11th attacks. The Boston Globe has a gripping account of his heroism.
"'Don't tell anybody I am here.'" his mother said his son told her. He wasn't very proud of the war.
Comments (1)
Bob - thanks for posting this, it's a very moving story.
I believe you misinterpreted the "don't tell anyone I'm here" quote. Here's the two relevant paragraphs:
He earned a chestful of medals, but Monti agonized over all the killing war required, his family said. He returned from Afghanistan in 2003 with a Bronze Star for valor, but his mother recalled: “He didn’t like talking about it. Most of the time he just liked to be left alone. He’d say, ‘Don’t tell anybody I am here.’ He wasn’t proud of it.’’
When he was pressed about how he earned it, Janet Monti said, he’d finally blurt out something like, “I had to kill someone’s brother, or father, or sister.’’
It reads to me that he was only saying he wasn't proud of his Bronze Star. I'm not sure what the "don't tell aybody I'm here" comment is, but I think it might be that he didn't want anybody to know he was home on leave...
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