Desmond Doss was not your average hero.
He would become a Medal of Honor recipient, the United States of America’s highest and most prestigious military award, as a combat medic who saved many of his comrades lives in battle without firing a single shot – because he did not take a weapon into combat because of his religious beliefs.

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The Medic Who fought a War without a Weapon