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Desmond Doss

Desmond Doss served as a United States Army medic during World War II in the Pacific. Doss was awarded the Bronze Star twice for valor in the Philippines and Guam and the Medal of Honor during the Battle of Okinawa. In April 1945, the 77th Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion suffered heavy casualties assaulting Japanese defenses atop a jagged cliff 400 feet high. Seventy-five Americans were killed in rapid succession after relieving the battered 96th Division. Scores of wounded lay sprawled across Hacksaw Ridge. Private First Class Doss did not retreat and instead carried the injured one by one to safety. Doss repeated similar acts of heroism on multiple occasions, never leaving a soldier behind and risking his own life to give medical assistance. After being wounded four times with more than a dozen pieces of shrapnel in his body, the Army medically evacuated Doss from the front lines on Okinawa.



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  1. Israel may as well get their armed forces ready! Biden is going to have a giveaway/firesale of the US when he gets in. Almost tempted to pray for him to die! But instead praying for him to somehow survive 4 years so the Ho doesn’t take over!!!!!!!! If the Ho does we may all be living in grass huts! Biden better make sure his secret service detail keeps him alive (not let Obammer or the Ho get him “erased”!)

    Or maybe we’ll have civil war number two?

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