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2006-03-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pacifist patriot Medal of Honor winner dies

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Posted by Jackal 2006-03-24 21:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 An example the "Christians" for "peace" would do well to follow.

If they weren't on the other side.

Rest in peace, Mr. Doss. You were a great and good man, and this non-pacifist honors my fellow Virginian for a truly honorable life.

Don't worry - where you are now, you'll never have to cross the paths of those clowns nowadays who besmirch the name of true and honest pacifism and patriotism, even after they die.

But they'll be a whole lot warmer than you.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-24 21:34|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-03-24 21:34|| Front Page Top

#2 From the US Military Medal of Honor site, about Mr. Doss:
He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying them 1 by 1 to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On 2 May, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within 8 yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On 5 May, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of 1 arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station.

An amazing, brave, and honorable man. RIP Sir!

Posted by DMFD 2006-03-24 22:13|| 2006-03-24 22:13|| Front Page Top

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