1976-2005

A biography of Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic actions battling Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. Describes Murphy's life on New York's Long Island and how he developed into a man who would sacrifice his life for his comrades. Discusses the effect of his death in 2005 on his tight-knit family as they learned more about Operation Red Wings in which he lost his life.

Tells the life story of social activist and aid worker Marla Ruzicka, who was killed at the age of twenty-eight by a car bomb blast in Iraq in April 2005 and whose work led the U.S. government to pass legislation aiding civilian victims of U.S. military actions.