The Medic Who Obeyed When It Made No Sense

In the spring of 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maui Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged, thirty-five-foot cliff the soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge. He carried no rifle, no sidearm, nothing but a Bible, a medic's kit, and a calling he could not explain to anyone's satisfaction. The Army had mocked him. Fellow soldiers had thrown boots at him in the barracks.…