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Arlington National Cemetery is a really sacred place it serves the purpose of honoring our nation's veterans every
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headstone at Arlington has an incredible story and rumens his story is definitely one we shouldn't
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forget and the MUNs was my big brother he loved his country and he was proud to serve in the Navy in 1968 1968 was
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incredibly tumultuous year for our country to say the least you were headlong into a really
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unpopular war in Vietnam and there were massive protests on the street and iman's was a patriot at a time when it
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was not popular to be a patriot and he joined the Navy for all the right reasons to serve his country Mons was a
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24-year old Navy officer serving aboard the USS CAC upon in the u.s. naval base Suffolk Bay and the Philippines
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it's job was to refuel the aircraft carriers and the destroyers and II was the dispersing officer so he had the
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payroll and to make sure that everybody got their money it was not a huge crew but they had to work really hard on
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January 17 1968 month failed to show up to muster which is the morning roll call
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the crew searched for him but he had disappeared and so had $8,600 from the safe that he was in charge of MUNs was
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never heard from again this young man just wanted to serve his country and within three weeks of reporting aboard
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that ship he disappeared and he was labeled a deserter and a thief he would never have taken that money so something
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else happened the Navy investigated Munns disappearance for six months and that was it when somebody is a deserter there
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is no honor as recognized by the Navy they're a deserter you don't get much lower than that
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when those white gloved hands hand the family member that folded flag you often see them pull it in it's close to their
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chest it's that important of a symbol and you're denied all of that the Navy or the military shuts you out knew that
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something bad had happened somebody killed my brother my mother never got a flag all service people get when they
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lose a son she never had that closure Mary Lou mines his sister made it her mission to find out what happened to her
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brother I knew I had to give it my best shot but we had no way of getting the Navy to open a new investigation until
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one day I got a phone call I almost didn't answer but it was Pete Hughes from the cold-case squad from the Naval
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Criminal Investigative Service Pete said why should we open an investigation why
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do you think your brother was murdered and he let me talk she had explained to me certain things she had done on her
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own and just hearing that just screamed she needed assistance while there's a statute of limitations on crimes there's
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no statute of limitations self imposed on agents to solving a crime so where others may see an end
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NCSA just don't accept that and it'll continue to drive forward there's no evidence there's no crime scene there's
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no witnesses this case was the unsolvable but one thing about Pete and I we had a good track record for solving
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the unsolvable Monza's story was such a fascinating tale it actually inspired one of the early episodes of NCIS the TV
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show he was there dispersing officer he was declared a deserter thirty days later and he received a dishonorable
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discharge dishonorable something happened on that ship that night we knew there was a
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killer that lurked on that ship the worst case he's now somewhere the United States the NCIS mission is global
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we're on aircraft carriers we're in foreign ports we watch after each other we take care of each other
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NCIS deal with every type of crime cyber fraud murder general crimes counterintelligence
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counterterrorism every crime is a tragedy bald sisters brothers husband that's the only way to find the truth
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NCIS the cases they can't forget