The Unarmed Soldier on Hacksaw Ridge
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss crawled across the blood-soaked escarpment of Hacksaw Ridge in Okinawa with nothing but a Bible and...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16.
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss crawled across the blood-soaked escarpment of Hacksaw Ridge in Okinawa with nothing but a Bible and a prayer. While bullets shredded the air around him, the young Seventh-day Adventist medic — who had refused to carry a weapon — dragged wounded Marines one by one to the cliff's edge and lowered them to safety on a rope.…
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