Sergeant Samuel Cole earned the Medal of Honor for his leadership on Iwo Jima, when he single-handedly took out two Japanese gun emplacements before being killed by Japanese grenades. 

A bugler, Cole repeatedly asked to be assigned as a machine-gunner, fighting in Guadalcanal, Tinian and Saipan. 

The USS Cole, which was damaged by Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen in October 2000, was named for him. The attack, on October 12, 2000, killed seventeen sailors.

Honor and remember Samuel Cole!