Benavidez had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds from the six-hour fight with the enemy battalion.[3]
NFL players may want to take a look at this video from the early 1990s.
It is a speech given by Master Sergeant Raul Perez “Roy” Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient who was honored in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan for his heroic actions during combat in South Vietnam in 1968.
His story is truly an incredible one. Benavidez saved the lives of at least 8 men during a battle he would later describe as “six hours in hell.”
Want an example of his heroic actions that day? The following excerpt based on his Roman Catholic Saints bio is incredible:
Benavidez suffered so many injuries rescuing his fellow troops that he was thought dead upon being evacuated and nearly zipped up in a body bag.
It is a speech given by Master Sergeant Raul Perez “Roy” Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient who was honored in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan for his heroic actions during combat in South Vietnam in 1968.
His story is truly an incredible one. Benavidez saved the lives of at least 8 men during a battle he would later describe as “six hours in hell.”
Want an example of his heroic actions that day? The following excerpt based on his Roman Catholic Saints bio is incredible:
At one point in the battle an NVA soldier accosted him and stabbed him with his bayonet. Benavidez pulled it out, yanked out his own knife, killed him and kept going, leaving his knife in the NVA soldier’s body.That my friends, is a badass.
Benavidez suffered so many injuries rescuing his fellow troops that he was thought dead upon being evacuated and nearly zipped up in a body bag.
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That was a damn good story. One helluva man. Thx.
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