[Texas_Jarhead]

A hundred stories about veterans like Mr. Doss demonstrate that one can be a pacifist and a patriot. They seem a universe away from the anti-American marxists masquerading as pacifists that we tolerate today.

[Gumlegs]

Exactly right.

[Dog Gone]

Doss wasn't a pacifist by today's standards. He felt he had a biblical duty not to kill as a personal matter, but he supported the war and our country.

That's a somewhat contradictory personal belief, but not in the larger sense. Not everyone in the armed forces fires weapons, even in wartime. He was willing to help the best he could without crossing his personal moral line in the sand.

And help he did. Heroically.