Dennis Bender:  

my brother left this web page on my sons laptop, want to share a story not too many people know about, fellow Marines the USMC and our immediate family, My Marine brother was decorated with the Silver Star, Cross of Gallantry Medal, Purple Heart and Marine Corp/Navy Accomodation Medal, and a battlefield commission to 2nd Lieutenant, all while serving in South East Asia, facing unsurmountable odds from the enemy and heavy ground fire, they he and 3 others in his fireteam, were ambushed, his 3 fellow Marines were all wounded, one in the knee, another in the hip and the 3rd in the chest, my brother was not injured he was lucky, keeping his buddies down and out of harms way he radioed for a helicopter EVAC to get his wounded out and onto safety, the chopper landed but could get only 50 yards from them the terrain did not allow for any closer proxcimity to their position, while under heavy fire from the NorthVietnamese Army and Viet Cong, he picked up the first Marine ran him to the waiting chopper about 50 yards, not say a word to the crew he ran back for the second wounded Marine, placing him in the waiting Chopper, finally made a return trip for the 3rd Marine carrying him to safety, lifting off the helicopter flew back to their camp and the services of the Battalion Aid Station and the corpsman, all 3 Marines had survived their ordeal tha...Expand for more