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Hacksaw Ridge

During World War II, Desmond Doss served as a combat medic who also earned a Bronze Star Medal. At the Battle of Okinawa, he saved 75 wounded infantrymen atop Hacksaw Ridge, for this act alone he received the Medal of Honor. What’s most noteworthy about all this, he is the first conscientious objector to have even received such a distinguished medal.

Hacksaw Ridge