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Like his Master, he was a carpenter. He was 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...
...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...
...Seventh-Day Adventist, a conscientious objector, and a veteran, Desmond Doss had something to say about war: "Everybody has got to get back to believing in God and the other fellow and his rights...
These figures are probably conservative: New York State estimates 20 such deaths a month. About 2,000,000 sleeping pills are sold every day in the U.S., mostly on doctors' prescription, but a good many of them are bootlegged by unscrupulous druggists. Last week State Senator Thomas C. Desmond announced a bill to make it as hard to buy sleeping pills in. New York State as to buy narcotics...
...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...