35. Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That He Lay Down His Life For His Friends
The last that PFC Kravitz’s buddies saw of him, the young hero was covering their retreat. He held back enemy infiltrators from pouring through a gap to the left of his position. When he spotted a column of communist troops advancing upon a friendly position, he swept them with deadly and accurate fire, killing the entire group.
His fearless defense and accurate fire forced the enemy to concentrate their fire on Kravitz’s position, long enough for his buddies to make it back to safety. The following day, the Americans launched a counterattack and retook their positions. They found Kravitz dead by his machinegun, with heaps of enemy corpses in front of him, and two dead communists in the machinegun position with him. He was nineteen years old.