WEBVTT 00:00.740 --> 00:04.023 - You either adapted or you died. 00:04.987 --> 00:07.570 (solemn music) 00:08.760 --> 00:12.330 You don't think about something, you just react. 00:12.330 --> 00:15.283 Your training kicks in and your mind goes blank. 00:17.040 --> 00:18.940 You're not gonna let your brothers die. 00:26.245 --> 00:27.590 We was just gettin' ready for the night. 00:27.590 --> 00:30.140 You know we'd had a fox hole dug 00:30.140 --> 00:32.950 and we're sittin' there heatin' up our C-Rations to eat 00:32.950 --> 00:35.785 and I never even got to eat. 00:35.785 --> 00:38.096 (distant explosions) 00:38.096 --> 00:39.446 We had no cover whatsoever. 00:40.340 --> 00:44.520 Most of the platoon were either dead or wounded. 00:46.010 --> 00:47.400 And I 00:49.790 --> 00:51.820 did what I could do 00:51.820 --> 00:53.870 to help save more people as I could save. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.010 - His rifle was struck at the receiver, 01:01.010 --> 01:04.680 slamming it back into his face, breaking his nose, 01:04.680 --> 01:07.130 and rendering his rifle inoperable. 01:07.130 --> 01:10.960 His platoon had been caught in the open and cut to pieces. 01:10.960 --> 01:14.720 He used the dark and the only weapon he had left, 01:14.720 --> 01:16.270 a KA-BAR knife. 01:16.270 --> 01:19.180 He was about to start crawling out of the ambush site 01:19.180 --> 01:23.130 when he heard the screams of Lance Corporal Fobbs. 01:23.130 --> 01:26.190 Lance Corporal Stogner could've crept off in the darkness 01:26.190 --> 01:28.240 but chose to remain on the battlefield 01:28.240 --> 01:30.750 continuing to fight with only his knife. 01:30.750 --> 01:33.410 Then he chose to sneak in enemy territory 01:33.410 --> 01:35.040 to rescue a fellow Marine. 01:35.040 --> 01:38.640 Lance Corporal Stogner's bravery and extraordinary heroism 01:38.640 --> 01:41.860 on the night of April 5th, 1967, 01:41.860 --> 01:43.640 only adds to the legend 01:45.020 --> 01:46.293 of the Walking Dead. 01:48.230 --> 01:50.120 - Well, you know, you're taught from day one 01:50.120 --> 01:53.990 in the Marine Corps, it's not I, it's not me. 01:53.990 --> 01:54.823 It's us. 01:56.560 --> 01:59.670 We all wore green, we all bled red. 01:59.670 --> 02:01.623 And we all were the best of friends. 02:03.190 --> 02:05.890 And we're still as good of friends now as we was then. 02:11.190 --> 02:12.523 Y'all got the torch. 02:13.670 --> 02:14.523 Keep it high. 02:15.970 --> 02:18.143 Don't let us be forgotten.