English - My Hero

For English we have had to write a S.E.X.Y paragraph about someone we admire. I did mine, You should read about him below.

My hero is someone called Desmond Doss. He was a medic in WW2 and saved over 70 people on the battlefield. Desmond Doss was a conscientious objector, this meant that he would not touch a gun. Doss was a medic in WW2 and whenever he heard a call on the battlefield he would risk his own life to help others.

When he joined the Army, Desmond assumed that his classification as a conscientious objector would not require him to carry a weapon. He wanted to be an Army combat medic. As luck would have it, he was assigned to an infantry rifle company. His abnegation to carry a gun caused some amounts of trouble amongst his fellow soldiers. They viewed him with hatred and thought of him as a liability. One man said to him “Doss, as soon as we get into combat, I’ll make sure you don't come back alive”. His commanding officers wanted to get rid of him. The didn’t see the need for a soldier who doesn’t handle a gun. Doss was intimidated, scolded, got assigned extra tough duties and declared mentally unfit for the army. They even tried to court martial him for refusing a direct order, to carry a gun. Until one day on Hacksaw Ridge where Doss saved 75 people from death, there whole perspective on Doss changed.

Doss did this all without killing anybody or touching a gun. Before being discharged from the army in 1946 Doss developed Tuberculosis. He would spend most of his time in the hospital. As the illness progressed his left lung had to be removed as well as five ribs. For the rest of his life he survived on one lung, until that too failed. At the age of 87 he passed away. He is buried in the National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

I find Desmond a hero because he risked his life to save multiple other people when he was under fire. He is also a hero because he stood by his principles and did not do anything to condone violence. His beliefs in god made up for any physical attributes that the other soldiers had over him. He believe that god would not let him die so he did what was necessary to save as many people as possible. He believed that saving another person's life was more important that saving his own. He risked everything to save those 75 men from their deaths, he saved a man when he was 25 ft away from enemy lines. He thought that violence was not an ok thing to do. So he didn’t partake in it. He was a very very religious man and he followed the ten commandments to the T.