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Thank you.
Today is Veterans Day, and the deepest thank you I know comes through a man who went to war without a weapon.
Desmond Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would not kill. He refused a deferment, volunteered, and served as a medic. His own unit mocked his praying and tried to drive him out.
Then came Okinawa, and a 400-foot cliff called Hacksaw Ridge. When fire drove his battalion off the summit and left the wounded behind, Doss refused to seek cover. Alone on the ridge, he carried the wounded one by one to the edge and lowered them down on a rope, praying: "Lord, please help me get one more."
He estimated fifty men. His commander said a hundred. The Army settled on seventy-five.
Days later, wounded by a grenade, he gave his stretcher to a man hurt worse, took a sniper's bullet through the arm, splinted it with a rifle stock, and crawled 300 yards to help. He never fired a shot.
On October 12, 1945, President Truman placed the Medal of Honor around his neck, the first conscientious objector in American history to receive it.
To every veteran: the riflemen and the medics, the ones who carried weapons and the one who carried men. Thank you. We have not forgotten what your hands did.
From his official Medal of Honor citation and U.S. Army records. Photos: U.S. Army.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! 60 Minutes was FORCED to air this
“[President Trump] will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most-celebrated foreign leader that changed the ballgame and changed the world as a result!”
That’s the truth! 🔥
SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵