What Washington Did To This Ranger Took 70 Years
On November 25, 1950, First Lieutenant Ralph Puckett led 51 Rangers up a frozen hill in North Korea — outnumbered 10 to 1. That night, six waves of Chinese soldiers hit their position. Puckett was wounded three times and refused evacuation every time. When two mortar rounds finally put him on the ground and he couldn't move, he gave his men one last order: leave him behind.
Two privates disobeyed.
What happened on Hill 205 that night earned Puckett the Distinguished Service Cross. But the full story — and the right medal — took 70 years to reach him.
This is the true story of one of the most extraordinary acts of courage in the Korean War, and the men whose names history almost never recorded.
If your father or grandfather served in Korea, drop their name in the comments. Those stories deserve to survive.
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