Getting Wounded
Following the epic battle of holding down the airfield that night in October, Puller nominated two men from his crew to receive the Medals of Honor, something which he never got to receive. A battle in Guadalcanal, left him injured in the leg seven times by shrapnel in a single engagement. He responded to his doctor with these famous words where “Pullerisms,” was born. “Evacuate me, hell! Take that tag and label a bottle with it. I will remain in command!” the service newspaper Marine Corps Times had quoted him saying this in 1948.