Knee Deep in the Hooah!

Very proud mum!

Found this at RN:

This Marine certainly is a very brave man, and he is also a very considerate son. Yes, we do worry – us Blue Star moms, but we are pretty brave too! By the picture of his mum, I would say she is pretty darned proud of him. Sure we worry, but we know our Marine or our Soldier are strong and brave. That helps.

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Hero Marine rugby-tackles suicide bomber and says ‘Don’t tell mum, I don’t want her to worry’

By Jaya Narain
Last updated at 1:41 AM on 18th April 2009

was an act of remarkable bravery by a Royal Marine which saved the lives of 30 comrades serving alongside him in Afghanistan.

Sergeant Noel Connolly rugby-tackled a suicide bomber pushing a motorbike packed with more than 150lb of deadly explosives.

But the 41-year-old followed this courage with an astonishing display of modesty.

He played down his heroics so much that he did not even tell his family. Then, when the story emerged, he begged his sister not to tell their 81-year-old mother, Mary.

The Taliban fanatic had been pushing the bike towards Sgt Connolly’s Army base when the Marine ordered him to stop and saw a telltale toggle switch attached to the handlebars.

Sgt Connolly dived on the bomber, grabbed him by the shirt and hauled him from the bike.

But the hero only told his sister Breda Connolly when she wrote to ask if the exploits of an unnamed soldier had anything to do with him. He admitted: ‘Yes – but don’t tell Mum.’

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