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He Refused to Carry a Gun. Then He Saved 75 Men.
In 1942, Desmond Doss joined the US Army and refused to carry a weapon. His fellow soldiers called him a coward, and his officers tried to have him thrown out. In 1945, on a cliff on Okinawa the soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge, the Americans were driven back under heavy fire. Doss stayed on top, alone and unarmed, and lowered wounded men down the cliff on a rope, one by one. His Medal of Honor citation puts the number at about 75. This is his documented story.
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