FYI: On this day, 72 years ago, September 5, 1952, 21-year-old Hospital Corpsman Third Class Edward Clyde Benfold was serving with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division near Panmunjom, Korea during the Korean War.
His company came under heavy artillery and mortar barrages followed by a determined enemy assault estimated at battalion strength during the dark hours of the night.
Benfold moved resolutely from position to position under intense hostile fire, treating wounded Marines and lending words of encouragement.
When the platoon area he was working in was attacked from both front and rear, Benfold left his sheltered position and moved forward to an exposed ridge line where he observed two Marines wounded inside a large crater.
As he approached to aid them, two enemy soldiers threw grenades into the crater and charged the position.
With great courage, Benfold leapt out of the crater holding a grenade in each hand and hurled himself against the attackers, pushing the grenades against their chests and killing both.
Mortally wounded in this act of self-sacrifice, he directly saved the lives of the two Marines.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty.
The Medal of Honor was presented to his son by Rear Admiral John H. Brown Jr. on July 16, 1953.
Benfold is buried in Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey, and the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) was named in his honor.

Now that the reason to name a naval ship - not named after some activist....