Talk about a tough day at work, I love stories about heroism but that Benavidez account is so incredible.
From the heading into an overrun position of a twelve man team with only a bowie knife, to suffering almost every type wound imaginable, grenade shrapnel, rifle fire, bayonet and even butt strokes, it is way off the charts.
Once many years ago on a trip I stopped outside his house trying to decide if it was too early to stop and say hi to him, I drove on with out seeing him but his work that day should endure in the legends of warriors until the end of time.
They made a GI Joe of him about 10 years ago. http://actionheroes.homestead.com/reviewsfour.html