A FOX News article illustrates how Petty Officer Michael A. Monsoor was honored by his fellow Navy SEALs: they affixed 45 SEAL tridents on his casket before his burial at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, CA. Monsoor laid down his life in Ramadi, Iraq, when he threw himself on a grenade, saving the comrades on the same rooftop that they had been assigned to secure. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
UPDATE: I stand corrected - the number of tridents on the casket was just the beginning, and a SEAL who was present wrote to explain that many more were added. Here is what President Bush had to say during the Medal of Honor award ceremony on 8 April 2008:
"Perhaps the greatest tribute to Mike's life is the way different service members all across the world responded to his death. Army soldiers in Ramadi hosted a memorial service for the valiant man who had fought beside them. Iraqi Army scouts -- whom Mike helped train -- lowered their flag, and sent it to his parents. Nearly every SEAL on the West Coast turned out for Mike's funeral in California. As the SEALs filed past the casket, they removed their golden tridents from their uniforms, pressed them onto the walls of the coffin. The procession went on nearly half an hour. And when it was all over, the simple wooden coffin had become a gold-plated memorial to a hero who will never be forgotten."
