The Medic Who fought a War without a Weapon — Transcript
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- 0:16Desmond Doss was not your average hero.
- 0:18He would become a Medal of Honor recipient,
- 0:21The United States of America's highest and most prestigious military award.
- 0:25As a combat medic who saved many of his comrades' lives in battle, without firing a single shot,
- 0:31because he didn't take a weapon into combat, because of his religious beliefs
- 0:36Desmond Doss was born in 1919, in the state of Virginia,
- 0:40and was raised as a strict Seventh-day Adventist,
- 0:42A Christian denomination that believed that Saturday was the sabbath, and that the second coming of Jesus Christ was imminent.
- 0:49They also believed strongly in non-violence, and a healthy diet, based typically on a vegetarian diet.
- 0:57Doss had been raised with a strict belief in the bible, and when it came to the Ten Commandments, he took them to be the core values of how to lead his life.
- 1:05When World War 2 started, he was conflicted, as he believed the war was a just one, but he felt that to kill another human being under any circumstance was wrong.
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