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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...
...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...
...came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...
...Iceland's 130,000 population all but 400 Roman Catholics and 70 Seventh-Day Adventists are included in Dr. Sigurdsson...
...aground and burned it. By 1800 all the mutineers but John Adams had either died quietly or been murdered. And for 29 years Adams, brandishing the Bounty's dog-eared Bible, had ruled the island wisely and well. From the U.S., a few years later, had come a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary who converted all the island's inhabitants. Since then, Pitcairners have been prohibitionists; education for children has been compulsory. But strong strains of Tahitian blood and a California climate made Pitcairn's 202 tanned inhabitants easygoing. Few serious crimes were committed, but everyone, within limits...