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Desmond T. Doss Sr
Christian Century, April 18, 2006
A Seventh-day Adventist and World War II veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor for saving dozens of soldiers while unarmed has died at 87. Desmond T. Doss Sr. died March 23 at his residence in Piedmont, Alabama, reported the Adventist News Network. Doss served as a U.S. Army medic, and in keeping with his Adventist beliefs he refused to work on Saturday, his denomination's Sabbath, or carry a gun.
But he earned his medal by keeping one of those rules and forgoing the other. On May 5, 1945, a Saturday, the unarmed Doss rescued 75 wounded soldiers on the island of Okinawa. He is believed to be the only person to receive the medal for noncombat action in World War II. Doss's wife, Frances, said he didn't like being called a conscientious objector--he was the subject in 2004 of a feature-length documentary, The Conscientious Objector--and preferred to be described as a "noncombatant."
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