Who was Michael Murphy? Market data provided by Factset. Murphy was engaged to be married to Heather Duggan. The morning after the team's arrival in Afghanistan the SEALs found themselves ambushed by scores of Taliban fighters -- they were trapped along a cliff face with a stream of gunfire pouring down from above. Mr Murphy, who saw his actions in combat immortalized in two major movies (Murph the protector in 2003 and the Hollywood blockbuster with Mark Wahlberg Lone Survivor in 2013) posthumously received the Navys Medal of Honor. where he played youth soccer and Pee-Wee football. No. Thank you. Then Murphy stood and staggered back, and still kept firing as one by one his team was killed. He was commanding a four-man reconnaissance team, whose mission was to capture or kill Ahmad, Ben Sharmak, Shah a top Taliban leader. Then he comes up to me, Mr. Their talks during those drives were some of Mr. Murphys best moments as a parent. Michael did not acquire the nickname in high school of Murph the Protector on a whim. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. But the longer they drove, the more Mr. Murphy saw that his son had researched this, and it was no whim. Michaels story is well known now thanks largely to the best-selling story Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and the Universal blockbuster movie of the same name starring Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins of Friday Night Lights fame) portraying Michael in the movie. USN SEAL Marcus Luttrell was the only surviving Americanfrom the four-man squad; Luttrell, after several days of wandering in the mountainssubsequent to the deaths of his three comrades, stumbled upon civilization and was protected by local villagers, primarily Mohammad Gulab. For his first assignment, he was deployed in Jordan alongside Foxtrot platoon that same year in October. This is Daniel and Maureen Murphys third Veterans Day without their son Michael, but its different this time. The family of the Medal of Honor winner, who has now offered a cash reward for any information leading to the identification of the vandals who desecrated the monument, issued a statement: The family is heartbroken by the damage to this beautiful monument to our son and the men of Operation Red Wings.,