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Murph: The Protector Page #5
you probably couldn't get
a better compliment,
that he not only recognized
my service,
but he understood the difficulties
that I went through
and recognizing,
"Dad, if you could get through that,
and... and I was so proud
of what you did,
then I should be able
to get through Hell Week,
which is nowhere near
what you had to deal with."
For Michael, it was just...
it was just one more obstacle
he had to overcome.
And he didn't look back.
And, you know, it's a testament
to his character
and a testament to, you know,
his quiet passion
and commitment to making it
on the team.
He went to SEAL training
to become a SEAL.
That was...
and nothing was gonna stop it.
I sent him a card.
When he was little,
he used to like
I go to the card store
and I see this card.
And it's a little train.
And it says,
"I think I can, I think I can."
And when you open the card, it said,
"I knew you could. Love, Mom."
He called me when he got it
and he said,
"Mom," he said,
"that was the best present I ever got,"
he says, "that you knew
that I could do it."
These are just tons
of memories...
memories from high school,
junior high, all the way
up until now even.
Over here, these are
some of my jujitsu medals,
some of my science medals.
my dad gave this one to me.
It was for one of my birthdays.
And I remember he gave it to me
and I'm looking at it
and in my mind I'm thinking,
"This is probably a hundred years old."
I'm looking at it now
and realizing, most likely not.
But realizing how
the medical profession
was back then and how it is now,
and, you know,
despite all the advances in technology
and medicine and science,
I'm very proud,
very proud of Hector
as... as the person
that he is developing into,
very proud that he's choosing...
and I want to be very clear...
not medicine or what it is.
I'm very proud that he's choosing
to give of himself and to help others.
Leaving high school, I knew,
I knew, I knew, I knew
that I was gonna be a doctor.
So, through college, that was
the unifying thread
in all my internships,
all my research experience.
I wanted that passion,
that contact with people,
and I could try to help them out
in any way possible.
Obviously, as an undergrad,
I don't have all the skills
where I could be treating patients,
but in any way that I could,
that's what I was willing to do.
Mike and Heather
went to Penn State together.
They knew each other there,
but they didn't start dating
till he had graduated
and he'd gone off to OCS
and was now in the Navy.
And once he was...
once he moved to Hawaii
and was stationed
with his SEAL team out there,
then that's when they
got engaged.
He lost touch with all of us.
We didn't know that he had
circled back with Heather.
None of us knew that.
And when I heard
that they were actually engaged
and she was his fiance,
it made me feel a little bit better,
because knowing how much
he loved her
all through college...
I mean, he was...
she was his Everest.
I mean, he adored her.
A year before she went
to Penn State,
someone introduced them
because she was gonna go.
And he, being Mike, you know...
"I'll show her around.
I'll take care of her."
Evidently he decided
he was gonna take care of her
for a lot longer than the four years.
You talk about sticking to goals
I mean, he always knew
that she was the girl for him.
Yeah, he was crazy
about Heather.
That was... we all knew that.
Mike was pretty quiet.
He was... again,
he was a junior guy out of...
he was an L2,
or a Lieutenant Junior Grade.
And I was, like,
Lieutenant Commander at the time.
When you're forward deployed,
every day is Groundhog Day.
It's always the same
and it's got plenty of work.
And again, I will tell you,
Mike was...
he was just a very conscientious,
dedicated young guy.
You know, he understood
the big picture.
It may not be what he wanted to do
but he knew
that was the best way
the command, at the time.
And so, he rucked up
and did the job.
And as I talked to him
off-line one time,
I said, "There'll come a day
when you're gonna get tested,
so, you know, just be patient."
And Michael was tested.
very vaguely,
I would have to say.
You know, "Oh, it's tough."
"Oh, yeah, I've gone
a couple of places."
And he gave us
some instructions, he said,
"I can't tell you where I am,"
he said,
"but I will keep in touch by e-mail.
Please do me a favor,
do not talk about
time differentials,
because time differentials
deal with the location."
He didn't really
talk much about it
because a lot of things
that he had to do,
you know, they're very tight-lipped
about it, most of them are.
Michael would relate funny stories.
He said, "Oh, it was funny.
I was out."
And he said, "I was running."
He was jogging one time,
on the side.
And then he saw another pair.
So all they had was
shorts and boots, that's it.
He didn't have
anything else with him.
He said,
"And I didn't carry my weapon."
And he said, "And I got attacked
by a bunch of hyenas."
One of the hyenas
went to go lunge at him.
And he just jammed it right in the face
with his fist.
Scurried away,
because they travel in packs.
He said, "I'm kicking him
and trying to run
at the same time."
The reason why I know is because
and then I questioned him.
And Maureen said,
"Michael, there's no hyenas in Iraq."
And he said,
"Oh, Mom, you caught me."
And he said,
"Yeah, I was in Africa."
And that's when he said,
"Mom, I nearly lost my life."
He says,
"It was kind of scary."
When he would come home,
no, he would never talk about work.
It was just, "Hey, how are you doing?"
And everything was about...
never about him.
It was about, "How are you?"
You know?
That's just... no, I never heard...
I would try to pull stuff
out of him,
but never... he would never
talk about work.
We all stayed in touch with Michael
through e-mails
and kept up with what's going on.
When he could tell us
where he was, he did.
You know, that wasn't very often.
But, you know,
he e-mails me one day
and he's like, "Hey, Owen,
can I get a firehouse patch?"
So I said, "No problem, Mike.
I'll get you a patch."
Then in the next e-mail he says,
"Well, actually, I need 30 patches."
"30 patches?"
Now to be honest, that's more guys
than we had in the firehouse.
And he told me that basically
he wanted a reason...
The guys know why they're there.
while they're away,
something from home,
to remind them why they're there
and what they were doing
and who they were there for.
So the minute he got
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