A South Carolina War Hero Is the Namesake for the Navy’s Newest Destroyer

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The U.S. Navy is adding a new battleship, and its namesake will be a South Carolina war hero. A few days before Thanksgiving 2010 and about a month after his 21st birthday, Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter launched himself in front of a live grenade to save a fellow Marine. The impact of the blast took Carpenter’s right eye and decimated the rest of his body. One doctor told Vanity Fair in 2016 that Carpenter’s right arm had been so badly hurt it was like splinting a wet rag. But miraculously,

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