The Medic Who Carried No Weapon
When Desmond Doss enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, his commanding officers wanted him gone. A Seventh-day Adventist from Lynchburg, Virginia, Doss refused...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 5:13-20.
When Desmond Doss enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, his commanding officers wanted him gone. A Seventh-day Adventist from Lynchburg, Virginia, Doss refused to carry a rifle or work on Saturdays. Fellow soldiers called him a coward. They threw boots at him in the barracks. His captain tried to have him discharged for psychiatric reasons. The Pharisees of Doss's world — men who measured righteousness by outward conformity — could not fathom a soldier who obeyed a deeper law.…
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