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Murph: The Protector Page #4
Newark Airport, you know, closed down.
Dan and I had to take a car.
So Maureen, John and I,
we drive there
and they held us up
because they were...
the graduating class
was marching down the road.
There was about 400 of them
in, you know, uniform.
And we're seeing them
coming at us.
And Dan goes,
"You're never gonna see him in this.
Everybody's all dressed alike.
It's like a sea of blue."
I go and I turn to Maureen
and I say,
"Maureen," I said, "there is no way
we're gonna be...
I mean, how are we supposed
to find Michael?"
And as I turned, I said,
"There he is right there."
And I spotted him.
And Maureen goes, she said,
"There he is."
And Danny goes,
"How did you do that?"
I said,
"I know that walk anywhere."
And I said,
"How can you tell?"
And she said,
"I'd know that walk anywhere.
It looks...
he walks just like you."
Actually, when I heard him
I was like, "That's Mike?"
He sounded like...
this really deep voice and everything.
I couldn't believe it was him.
He was very authoritative.
But she spotted him right away,
which was amazing.
They get a certain amount
of coins.
And they give it to the first person
that salutes them.
And you're supposed to give it to
the people that influenced you the most.
And he gave one to his dad,
one to me and his brother.
I have that coin.
I will never let that go.
And I thought that...
it was a beautiful thing.
Crawl.
Crawl.
Crawl. Crawl.
- Hold up boat.
- Up boat.
- Down boat.
- Down boat.
- Up boat.
- Up boat.
- Down boat.
- Down boat.
- Hold up boat.
- Up boat.
- Down boat.
- Down...
When he goes to BUD/S,
I was concerned
because I knew how demanding
the program was.
I also knew how people fail.
You know, you read about
less than 15%, 20% graduate.
And I know Michael had a class
of about 200.
And he was relaying to me
how one of the first initiations was,
"Look to the guy to the left
of you
and look to the guy
to the right of you.
They won't make it
through the program."
That's how difficult it is.
Oftentimes the best athlete
in the class doesn't make it.
I know in my class,
the best athlete in our class quit.
It's very difficult
to look at somebody and say
that he is a SEAL
or he's going to be a SEAL.
I mean, today
they're 6'6", 260 pounds,
down to 5' 5", 130 pounds.
Because it's all in your heart
and it's all in your head.
It's really not about
your physical abilities.
They'll give you
the physical abilities.
in the SEALs
is they'll ensure that you have
the physical abilities.
What they can't give people,
and sometimes have difficulty
recognizing it and defining it
prior to the beginning,
is the mental and the heart.
Meanwhile,
the division's 3rd Brigade
had begun arriving from Hawaii
by airlift.
Their destination was Pleiku
in the central highlands
of Vietnam.
This was to be the 25th
Infantry Division's forward base.
When I was injured in Vietnam,
I was in a hospital.
And I had... an RPG landed
at my left ankle.
And I was wrapped around a rock.
And so I was peppered
from the waist down.
So I survived.
I wouldn't have survived
if I hadn't.
But because I was wrapped
around a large rock
and I was shooting uphill,
it landed at my left ankle,
fractured my left ankle
and peppered me from the waist down.
Because we were in the middle
of a major fight,
I was laying on that mountain
till I finally got dusted off.
I got shot in a leg by a sniper.
And I looked and I said,
"I just got shot."
And I said, "What a day."
What happened in the hospital... I was
in the 3rd Field Hospital in Saigon
and the general came in
and was pinning this Purple Heart on me.
And he took a picture.
I wasn't aware of it at the time,
that they take that picture
and they send it to my parents.
It was St. Patrick's Day.
Michael liked St. Patrick's Day.
And I was in Manhattan.
And I was watching the parade.
And I went to give him a call.
And the phone...
there was no answer.
So I called later on during the day
and later on,
and I said, "Something's up,"
because he would have called me back.
So he doesn't call.
Maureen realizes that there's
So she calls me and she says,
"Dan, you know, I didn't hear
from Michael on St. Patrick's Day.
I think there's some...
there's a problem."
I wanted to wish him
a happy St. Patrick's Day.
So I didn't hear from him.
And about 10 days later,
I get a phone call
and I pick up and it's Mike.
"What happened to you?
You were in the hospital."
As usual, Michael is so focused
and determined,
because he's so focused on
completing BUD/S and getting through
that it gets worse
until eventually he can't walk
and they have to cut him
out of his boots and his clothing.
Michael's thought wasn't about
It was, "Oh, I'm gonna be rolled
to the next BUD/S class."
Yeah, Murphy during training...
it happens quite frequently...
ended up getting a pretty severe
case of cellulitis,
which, you know, I've had it.
I've had it before.
And it's extraordinarily painful.
It's a pretty serious bacteria...
staph infection.
Apparently he got...
I think it's called cellulitis.
And he almost lost his legs
because of it.
And Michael got it
so severe in his legs
roll back in training.
He goes, "Mama, I was rolled."
And "rolled" means that
he couldn't go back
When you get rolled out
of your BUD/S class,
you... a lot of guys
just lose heart.
We have a saying
in the teams, you know,
"Everyone wants to be a frogman
on a sunny day."
But, you know, most of your days
are gonna be cold, wet and sandy,
especially in BUD/S.
And sometimes one more injury
on top of that
like cellulitis,
and you get rolled back,
it can be that one thing
that pushes you over the edge to say,
"You know what?
I don't want it that much."
how difficult it was
or the different things
he had to endure
to get through what he did.
He calls me up, I guess, about
the week before he starts Hell Week,
and he says to me,
"Dad," he said,
"do you remember that picture
that Grandma had of you,
you know, from Vietnam
when you were in the hospital bed?"
And I said, "Yes."
And he said, "Could you do me a favor?"
He said, "Do you have any extras?"
And I said, "Yeah."
And he said,
"Could you send me one?"
And I said to him, I said,
"Michael,
why do you want that picture?"
And he says to me,
he says, "Dad..."
He said, "If you could get
through that,"
he said, "then I can
get through Hell Week."
And I just thought to myself...
if a son could give a father
a compliment,
You... you prob...
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