Today, when I woke up, I felt an odd feeling. It was a mixture of profound proudness and desperate sadness. Today, was the day we said our goodbyes and grieved as we laid our brother and friend to rest in his decorated coffin of Navy Seal emblems reflecting off of the sunshine. For me, personally, it was a day where I said goodbye to my best friend, first man of my wedding and godfather of my children, Lieutenant Dave Johnson. As we surrounded the grieving family who just lost their 27 year old son, who died one week earlier, battling for his life in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I, along with all other members of our platoon, were emotionally confused as to how a man this heroic was now gone. As the ceremony began, we stood …show more content…
This place was too familiar to forget what was going to happen next. An unexpected tragedy was about to occur, but no one could have expected any of this to occur.
“Commander, we’re here. This is it. This is where the two American’s are being held. What’s the plan?” said Timmy Williams.
“Alright boys, this is it boys. We know our jobs, Timmy and Johnny you guys are gonna be the eyes from above, be ready to do some sniping. Jimmy, Tom and Chris, you guys are the first ones in and going to the right of the building. Dave, Nick and myself are second in and we are going to the left. Say your prayers boys, we don’t know what we are entering into. We have one job, one goal, so let’s do our job,” I remarked prior to entering into the building.
We got in our positions and the mission was under way. It was six men entering a building against a possible full army looking for two men.
It was now time to enter the suspected house. The moment we open the door we were entering into another battle, bullets flew by, but we proceeded. We took our positions and kept fighting through this tremendous fight, time after time we eliminated more of them then us. We were still six men strong, fighting through these