Marcus Luttrell: Support a True Hero

April 8, 2009 by Lisa Krempasky  
Filed under Action Steps

You may never have heard of Marcus Luttrell, but you owe him a debt of gratitude. Marcus is a former Navy Seal. On June 28, 2005 Luttrell and Navy Seal Team 10 were tasked with bringing in high ranking Taliban official Mohammad Ismail dead or alive. While on the mission, the 4 members of Team 10 came across some goat herders. They let the men go free only to be betrayed by them within the hour. Very soon the 4 men of Team 10 were engaged in a fierce fire fight with upwards of 150 Taliban rebels.

As the battle raged, Luttrell’s Team 10 fell one by one until he remained the Lone Survivor
. The Navy dispatched a MH-47 Chinook on a rescue mission, but it too was shot down killing all 16 crew members and leaving no survivors. Luttrell was severely wounded but managed to crawl and claw his way 7 miles hiding from and evading enemies at every turn. After 6 days of protection from the Taliban by local villagers he was finally rescued by American soldiers. Here’s his story as told to Matt Lauer.

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Marcus separated from the Navy and continued his healing. As part of his emotional healing he was given the unconditional love of a service puppy. He immediately named him DASY after the fallen members of Team 10 who have never been more than moments out of his thoughts since their massacre. Like many soldiers, Marcus is doing his best to adjust back to everyday life, but still suffers the physical and emotional scars of the Seals worse single day in their history.

On April 5, 2009 Marcus was at his home in Texas when he came across 4 teenagers standing over DASY whom they had just slaughtered with a .357 magnum…for the kicks of it. He watched his buddies die once and they have just died to him again. Our hero Marcus Luttrell, needs our love and support. Stop by his facebook page.

Luttrell is no different than thousands of American heros. We applaud you soldiers and sailers, grunts and flyboys. You are what makes America great and we never could thank you enough for securing our freedoms. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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4 Responses to “Marcus Luttrell: Support a True Hero”
  1. Here’s a sample email to write the prosecutor David Weeks [email protected]

    The murder of war hero Marcus Luttrell’s 4-year-old yellow Labrador Dasy
    resonates worldwide. Like Luttrell, most people treat companion animals as
    family members who happen to have fur. Like Luttrell, we’d want their
    killers prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    But for Luttrell — the sole survivor of a Navy SEAL team ambushed by
    Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2005 — the loss is unbearable. Dasy, a
    therapy dog, was Luttrell’s link back to the living world.

    Please seek maximum penalties under Texas law for Michael John Edmonds II,
    21, and Alfonzo Hernandez, 24, both charged with felony cruelty to
    nonlivestock animals in Dasy’s shooting on April 1, 2009.

    As you know, Luttrell responded to gunshots at his Walker County home.
    Finding nothing amiss, he raced outside to find bloody paw prints and Dasy’s
    body in a ditch. “I could tell she tried to get away,” Luttrell told
    interviewers. He chased Dasy’s killers in his pickup across three counties.
    He alerted a 911 operator and finally made a citizen’s arrest near Onalaska.

    Texas animal cruelty law allows for up to 2 years in prison and a $10,000
    fine. It also permits mandatory counseling. Please advocate extensive
    incarceration and rehabilitation for Edmonds and Hernandez. The men should
    also be barred from possessing, working or living with animals.

    In fact, five other area dog killings may lead back to Edmonds and
    Hernandez, according to Texas Ranger Steven Jeter. Repeat animal attacks
    suggest a predatory style that is indicative of “organized and premeditated
    violence against others,” says Dr. Randall Lockwood, an ASPCA animal
    behaviorist who often consults with cruelty investigators and law enforcers.

    Criminologists view the intensity of vicious behavior — regardless of the
    victim’s identity — as a precursor to future violence. The FBI identifies
    animal abuse as an early stage along the violence continuum. Indeed, men
    prosecuted for animal cruelty are five times as likely to be arrested for
    other violent crimes, as published in Utah State University professor Frank
    Ascione’s extensive research.

    Please punish these unrepentant killers to the fullest degree. That is the
    only real justice for Marcus Luttrell and his beloved Dasy.

    Thank you,

  2. Don says:

    Does anyone know how to send Marcus a message of thanks and support?

  3. sharon baker says:

    I believe that these men should do maximum time. And pay the maximum fine.It was a service dog, and i believe the penalty should be the same as though it were a police dog.

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