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...also a Seventh-Day Adventist, and a pacifist. Desmond T. Doss, of Lynchburg, Va., refused to bear arms in World War II. He explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty to his fellowman...
Haves & Have-Nots. The most optimistic of coaches was George Hunger of Pennsylvania, lone Ivy Leaguer rash enough to schedule both Army and Navy. He had a letterman line anchored on 250-lb. Tackle George Savitsky and a G.I. backfield starring ex-Air Corpsman Bob Evans, ex-Sergeant Don Schneider and ex-Army Fullback Farquahr Jones. Of Army and Navy, Coach Munger boasted: "We'll beat one of them. Wanna...
...bravest man-of-the-week on Okinawa-at least to the 77th Infantry Division-was a conscientious objector: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, 26, Medical Corpsman and Seventh-day Adventist...
Private Doss had planned to spend his Saturday (the Adventist Sabbath) as usual -in prayer and meditation. His commanding officer came to his tent and asked if he would forego the privilege that day; Doss happened to be the only corpsman available to a company scheduled to attack an escarpment. Doss said: "Captain, it is fine with me, but you'll have to wait a few minutes while I read my Bible here...
Their mouths were open as though in pain and little streaks of blood flowed from their noses. "Some kind of hemorrhage," said a medical corpsman. "Hell, those guys died of starvation," said another...