| 00:00:00 | HERNANDEZ AND HIS PLATOON TOOK DEFENSIVE POSITIONS AFTER GUNFIRE AND HEAVY ARTILLERY CAUSED NUMEROUS CASUALTIES. |
| 00:00:10 | LACKING AMMUNITION HIS COMRADES RETREATED BUT A WOUNDED CORPORAL HERNANDEZ STAYED BEHIND THE SLOW THE ENEMY. |
| 00:00:20 | WHEN A RUPTUREED CARTRIDGE PREVENTED HIM FROM FIRING HE RUSHED FORWARD ANYWAY ARMED WITH A RIFLE AND A BAYONETT AGAINST MANY BEFORE FALLING UNCONSCIOUS. |
| 00:00:37 | HIS ACTIONS SAVED LIVES AND ALLOWED HIS UNIT TO RETAKE THEIR GROUND. |
| 00:00:43 | LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CORPORAL RUDY HERNANDEZ OF NORTH CAROLINA. |
| 00:00:59 | [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:01:08 | >> IN DECEMBER, 1950, IN THE CHOSEN RESERVOIR AREA OF NORTH KOREA, NAVY LIEUTENANT HUTNER CAME TO THE RESCUE OF A PILOT. |
| 00:01:22 | AT GREAT RISK HE ATTEMPTED A WHEELS UP LANDING ON THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, ENEMY FIRE SURROUNDED HIM AND HE KNEW THERE WAS LITTLE CHANCE OF ESCAPE OR SURVIVAL IN THE SUBZERO TEMPERATURES. |
| 00:01:36 | HOWEVER, LIEUTENANT HUTNER STAYED PACKING SNOW INTO THE BURNING PLANE'S FUSELAGE. |
| 00:01:42 | WITH HIS BARE HANDS HE BATTLED TIME, COLD AND FLAMES IN HIS ATTEMPT |
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