Armed with faith: Gibson film shows WWII feats of medic

Friday, October 28, 2016

NEW ORLEANS -- When Desmond Doss climbed up Hacksaw Ridge -- a 400-foot-high escarpment on the island of Okinawa with a wall of dug-in Japanese soldiers at the top -- he carried his Bible, his combat medic supplies and the weight of his moral convictions, but no weapon.

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