One More on Hacksaw Ridge

On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss lay flat on the edge of a thirty-five-foot cliff on Okinawa — a jagged escarpment the soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge. Japanese forces had driven his entire company back over the edge. Seventy-five wounded men remained stranded on the plateau above, exposed to enemy fire. Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist who had refused to carry a rifle, had only one weapon: prayer.…