Desmond Doss joined the Army in World War II as a combat medic, but as a Seventh-day Adventist he had vowed he would never kill, so he refused to carry a gun. A lot of the men in his unit mocked him for it. Then at Okinawa in 1945, his company had to climb a steep cliff that came to be called Hacksaw Ridge, and Doss stayed in the line of fire and got some 75 wounded soldiers to safety. One of the men who had shamed him later called him one of the bravest people alive. President Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor in 1945.
