The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Private First Class Bernard Seiden (MCSN: 344928), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity during action against enemy Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on October 14, 1942. When a bivouac area of the First Battalion, Eleventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division, came under intense and prolonged bombardment by a number of Japanese ships and a major caliber projectile struck an accompanied dugout, Private First Class Seiden, along with four other men, unhesitatingly set to work to rescue two Marines who had been buried under an avalanche of debris. Under continuous shellfire and aerial attack, the crew persisted for nearly an hour in digging out and removing logs until the entrapped men were unearthed. One had been killed by a shell hit, but the other, due to the quick thinking and untiring efforts of Private First Class Seiden and his comrades, was undoubtedly saved from death by suffocation.