"Have you not heard?" "The Lord is the everlasting God." "The Creator of the ends of the earth." "He will not grow tired or weary." "And his understanding no one can fathom." "He gives strength to the weary" "And increases the power of the weak." "Even youths grow tired and weary," "And young man stumble and fall" "But those who hope in the Lord." "Will renew their strength." "They will soar on wings like eagles." "They will run" "And not grow weary." "They will walk" "And not be faint." "Desmond." "Hang on." "Hang on, Desmond." "We're gonna get you outta here." "Desmond." "Desmond." "What." "Wait up." "Catch up." "Wait up." "I got something to tell you." "What Hal?" "Race you to the top." "Hey cheater." "See you later slowpoke." "Hey." "Wanna hand?" "I got it." "Saved you ah." "Ah, you don't." "Quit it." "You quit it." "God sake." "Hey, get away from that ledge." "You damn fool kids." "You gonna break your neck." "It's them Doss's kids." "Crazy as their old man." "They dug up the corner of Jack's remain." "Put him in the sidewalk." "You boys won't recognize it now." "Mind you I doubt they'll recognize you." "They hardly know me when I walked by." "It's like I died with you." "It's like we boys never existed." "Well that's all I got for you today." "Block him with your right Desmond." "Stop it." "Do you hear me." "What are they fighting about?" "When did they ever needed a reason." "Hey Tom do you" "Why stop and save me whipping them both." "This way I'd whip the one that wins." "Tom." "No." "Oh God." "Tom." "Wake up." "Can you hear me?" "What the hell did you done?" "He can't hear me." "We'll get some ice." "You shift that basket." "I got it." "Is he breathing?" "Hal?" "Hal can you hear me?" "Hal can you hear me?" "Hal?" "Come on." "God help him." "Hal?" "Lord's Prayer Ten Commandments Vintage" "What do you think you doing?" "I'm going to have to beat you now." "You know the rules." "You hear me Desmond?" "SIXTH COMMANDMENT Thou shalt not kill" "Desmond!" "Tom." "Stop." "It's not going to teach the boy." "His violence enough already." "Ok fine, you go smothering and kiss him." "You tell him the world is soft and gentle place." "Hal's gonna be okay." "Hey." "I could've killed him." "Yes, you could have." "Murder is the worst sin of all." "And to take another man's life." "That is the most egregious sin in Lord's eye." "Nothing hurts His heart the most." "I hate him." "Mama." "Why does he hate us so much?" "Oh he don't hate us." "He hates himself" "Sometimes" "Your daddy and I met the real him." "I wish you knew him like I did before the war." "FIFTEEN YEARS LATER" "How do we sound Desmond?" "Like a heavenly host angels, Mom." "Now you know it's a sin to tell a lie." "Especially in this place." "Well I never said they were singing angels." "What's going on out there, Desmond?" "Go on." "Get him out." "Get him out." "Drag him out." "Just tug." "I'll phone an ambulance." "No." "No time." "Just a pickup" "Quick." "Okay." "LYNCHBURG HOSPITAL" "You gonna be fine, man." "You gonna be fine." "You in good hand." "What do we got here?" "That's a severed artery." " Get some sutures." " Yes, doctor." "Put some pressure on it." "Did you apply this tourniquet?" "Yes, sir." "Nice work." "You might've save this boy's life." "You staying with us." "You'll be okay." "We can get that." "Stay with us." "You should be okay." "You feel okay?" "Certainly doc." "Army physical is that way." "This is for giving blood." "Are you all right?" "Oh no." "That's not mine." "I'm fine." "Thank you for asking though maam." "What do you need?" "My belt." "I lend it to the boy who had the accident." "My pants don't hold up so good without it." "Well I dont' have your belt." "No." "I know that maam." "It's out there with the boys still." "Okay." "I'm just here to take blood." "I'll give you mine." "Okay." "Go to that room over there." "Wait with the others." "I'll call you." "That." "That room." "You ever given blood before, Mr." "Doss." "But my friends call me Desmond." "No, maam this is my first time." "I always dream about being a doctor but ahhh" "Didn't get much school." "Might be a little dizzy when we're done." "Somebody picking you up?" "No, maam." "I'm walking back." "Where do you live?" "Fort Ham, Maam." "That's away." "Five or six miles." "I cut through the woods." "Seven that way." "Must really like the woods." "Yes maam." "Sure do." "Okay." "Put some pressure here." "You okay?" "Where are you going looking all spruce and nice?" "Met someone yesterday." "Nurse over at the hospital name Dorothy Schutte and I'm gonna marry her." "Goodness, does she know that?" "Well not yet but about to." "Do you have even spoken to a woman?" "Other than the one that's not family." "Spoke to her." "In that case, come give your brother a big hug." "Oh Hal." "Get your greasy paws off of me." "Wish me luck mama." "Good luck." "Next." "Grab a seat." "You ever been given blood before?" "Yes maam I have." "You the belt man." "Desmond that's me." "Well Desmond we can't take your blood two days in a row." "That's good." "Can we get mine back?" "You what?" "My blood I need it back." "It dont work like that." "We can't just give it back to you." "Well you got to." "Ever since you stuck me with that needle my heart is beating up fast." "Everytime I think about you beat faster still." "I never heard that one before." "It's pretty corny." "It is." "Yeah." "That's a shame." "I've been practicing that all night." "No good?" "I didn't say that." "What's the difference between an artery and a vein?" "What are you talking about?" "The boy's accident." "Arteries spurt blood." "And veins?" "Bleed." "I think you need to practice your boys and girls dating talk at home before you come out." "I probably do." "I give you a book if you that interested." "On dating?" "On blood." "We Soldiers of Supply pledge that our fighting men shall not want the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT presents PRELUDE TO WAR" "Another medical question perhaps?" "No, I just think you're the prettiest thing I ever seen." "That's cause I'm sitting in the dark." "No." "And you're beautiful." "Out of the way!" "You need to watch where you going." "I'm sorry I didn't think you mind." "You didn't ask." "I thought you might've like it." "Well I might've if you asked." "You coming?" "Shit!" "Why didn't you say anything to us?" "Cause you would've try and talk me out of it and know what I'm doing is right." "And what about His commandment?" "It's not killing in a war." "I woud protected lots of boys from our church going." "There's a war and they need men." "Working in a paper mill aren't going to save this country." "Looks like a movie star." "Huh boy?" "Nice uniform." "Good hat." "Reminds me how Hardy get in his look in this uniform when we went to France." "Remember him Dorothy?" "Don't Tom." "What?" "I'm just saying how snappy Hal looks in his uniform." "All you girls certainly seems to think so." "He had them flocking to him." "He was most proud." "I just hope that when Hal get shot it's through the front of his jacket." "Like a simple entry wound not what you miss." "Or'd got hit in the back." "It blew most of his guts and intestines out his front off for everywhere." "Wrecked his uniform entirely." "It was lucky he was dead so he never knew how awful his uniform looked." "Get out of my sight." "What are you park mountain guard?" "Are you gonna help me Desmond Doss?" "Or you just gonna leave me stranded?" "I'll help you." "But it's gonna cost you." "What?" "A kiss." "That is pure blackmail." "Well yes maam it is but that is still my condition." "As indeed," "I gonna hold you to it." "Hold on now." "You aingt gonna slap me are you?" "Cause I'll fall off I'm gonna take you with me." "Kiss me and find out." "CUNNINGHAM'S MANUAL OF PRACTICL ANATOMY" "What?" "I have to enlist." "I can't stay here while all them go fight for me." "Yes, you can." " You can stay here." " Dorothy I have to." "I will be a medic." "I figure I'll be saving people not killing." "I have to go to work and don't want to be late." "Dorothy." "Don't." "Dorothy." "Dorothy." "So are you gonna ask me to marry you or what?" "I don't know you still gonna hate me?" "I wouldn't know you haven't ask." "Well I'm asking you" "With all my heart." "Will you marry me?" "Then yes." "Yes I will." "When?" "Soon as you get your first leave." "But I still don't like you at this moment." "Yeah." "Okay." "I love you." "Shhhh." "Mama say come see you here." "These three were my bestfriends." "I grew up with them." "Got into trouble with them." "Chase girls with them." "I enlisted with them." "Then my friends are there." "Covered in dirt and grass eaten by worms." "I don't want to have to visit my sons here." "Daddy I signed up already." "I couldn't do otherwise pop." " Everybody else is doing it." " You aingt everybody else." "Everybody else jumps in does thing quick without thinking like damn idiot fools we were." "You know that soldiers who live they live cause they can do that." "You can't!" "You got to sit and think and pray about everything." "Look at you." "You're doing it right now." "You won't be able to live with yourself if you go." "No, I won't be able to live with myself if I don't." "I'm going to be a medic." "That's going to be my way to serve." "There you go thinking it all out." "What you figure this war is going to fit in with you?" "Your ideas?" "What I know I don't doubt it's going to be hard." "It won't be hard." "It will be impossible." "You know whatever." "Beliefs you had in your crazy head now." "They don't ever play out it don't work that way." "And if by certain I don't know miracle chance you survive you won't be giving no thanks to God." "Break." "Break." "We all need some air." "C'mon fellas shake a leg." "I'd understand you got to say goodbye to mama." "C'mon." "Ladies please!" "Step away from the bus." "I almost forgot." "Do I need a crowbar?" "Here." "I want you to have this." "It's mine." "You keep it right here." "Where I'll be." "I love you." "Come Back To Me, Desmond Doss I Love You." "FORT JACKSON" "Do I have to gaze at your deformity everytime I walk to my bed." "Gaze upon it in envy my friend." "You okay there?" "You look lost." "Or you can sit right here." "Nice choice." "It got views to the mountain down to lake." "Randall Fuller." "Desmond Doss." "Call him 'Teach'." "You won't understand a word he says." "That because no one else here can read." "But testicles there belong to a man calling himself 'Hollywood'." "They look like they belong to a smaller guy." "You know testicles." "Oh hey." "I just got this shoes." "Hey ya." "Grease Nolan out of Redwood." "Where you from?" " Virginia." " Will Billy huh?" "You marry your first cousin?" "Haha just joking." "Woah!" "That Smitty over there with Kirzinski's ass." "Like you were doing any better, chowder head." "Hey, I didn't want to embarassed you." "Wal Kirzinski." "Nice to meet you." "Hey Ping Pong." "What you say your name was?" "Desmond Doss." "That Texas Lewis over there." "Thinks he some kind of cowboy." "And Vito Rinnelli." "Now he maybe small but he is a bulldog." " Hi how you doing?" " Desmond." "This handsome guy right here is Lucky Ford." "Hey." "That's Walker and Pinnick over there." "Pretending they're card shufflers." "Pipe down Grease alright." "Unless you want to put money where your mouth is." "Oh hey." "Good Book right?" " Right." " I think ahh" "I think Lucky's got a good book, right Lucky?" "It's a good read." "Attention!" "Ow!" "Line up." "Move it." "Let's go." "Move it." "Move it." "You're a strange looking individual if you don't mind me saying so Private?" "Name?" "Andy Walker." "How long have you been dead son?" "Sir?" "I am not "Sir"." "I am Sergeant Howell or Sarge." ""Sir" you say for useless people." "The name is Ghoul you see." "Walker." "Sergeant." "It is." "Yes, Sergeant." "There's something off with your presentation Private." "Can't place it." "Is it your hair?" "Is it the wrinkle in your trousers?" "I have a knife in my foot Sergeant." "Oh yes." "Of course." "That's it the knife." "What is your name soldier?" "Smitty Riker." "No." "Your name is Private Idiot." "You know why?" "Cause I have a knife in my foot." "Who place the knife there Private?" "It was an accident Sergeant." "I was playing stretch." "I'm hardened by the knowledge you did not placed it there with intention." "Who threw the knife?" "I did Sergeant." "Private Kirzinski." "You're part Indian." "What tribe do you belong, son?" "Don't know I'm polish." "Wrong." "I believe you must have Cherokee or Shawnee blood in you." " No Sir." " Are you contradicting me?" "You son of a bitch." "No sergeant." "Let me see your Indian war cry son." "I don't." "What is your animal spirit?" " Are you a Garter snake?" " No Sergeant." " Are you a chipmunk?" " No, sergeant." " Are you a dancing reindeer?" " No sergeant." " Are you contradicting me Private?" " No sargeant." "Good." "Then I shall henceforth call you Chief." "As a sign of great respect to your people." "Thank you, sergeant." "Are you grinning at me boy or is that your natural state?" "No Sergeant." "Name private." "Desmond Doss." "I have seen stocks of corn with better physiques." "Makes you wanna pull an ear off Private." "Can you carry your weight?" "Yes Sergeant." "Should be easy for you then." "Corporal." "Make sure you keep this man away from strong winds." "Yes, Sergeant." " Private idiot." " Yes Sergeant." "Raise your foot." "Higher." "Everyone outside now." "Move it." "I said move it." "I'm just getting my uniform Sarge." "Did I asked him to Corporal?" "No memory of it Sarge." "I believe any man who take such pride in his natural naked state." "Will surely enjoy the brisk of the outdoors." "Now move your private, Private Parts." "Move it." "You son of an exhibitionist." "I'm gonna teach you how to tie a bowline knot." "So you can get your sorry asses down from a height." "So I may then can kick 'em." "Create a loop." "This is the rabbit hole." "The rabbit comes out of his hole." "Runs around the tree." "Goes back into the hole." "Alright." "Let's go." "Very good Texas." "Keep struggling Teach." "Have you ever rope a goat, Hollywood?" "No Sarge." " Have you ever looked into a goat's eye." " No sarge." "Good." "That would be unnatural." "You know if you don't breath you'll die." "Good Private Idiot." "Congratulations Greaseball, you just fell fifty feet and broke your neck." "Brialliant." "Private Vito Rinnelli." "You strangle yourself none mercy." "Are you a fan of Benelli?" "No Sergeant." "Get taller." "You're American you'd be taller." "What do we got here Doss?" "One for each titty" "You're tying a bowline boy." "Not building a bra." " What is so funny Corporal?" " Couldn't tell you Sergeant." "Come on." "Come on ladies." "Pick it up." "Move it." "Move it." "I wanna see some fire here." "A little hustle." "Show me something." "Run like you need it." "Down." "Down." "Down." "Faster!" "Faster!" "Faster!" "Let's go wash tunnel boys." "It is got time to trust you now!" "Move." "Move." "Move." "I wanna see you won it." "Let's go." "Get in." "Get in." "Get in." "Don't forget behind your ears." "Let's go." "Move!" "I bet you're enjoying this naked degenerate." "Let's go." "Hustle." "Hustle." "Hustle." "Move." "Let's go." "What are we waiting on." "Let's go." "Move your ass." "Get the wood." "Get the wall." "Don't kiss quitters." "Drive." "Drive." " Are you okay?" " I'm fine." "What the hell is wrong with you?" "No one says take a rest." "Move your asses to the finish line." "Move." "Hustle." "Hustle." "Get your asses across damn line." "Aye, nice work Doss." "This is a personal gift from the United States government to each and everyone of you." "Standard issue U.S. rifle." "Caliber 30." "M1" "A clippard." "Shoulder fired semi automatic weapon designed to bring death and destruction to the enemy." "This is to be your lover." "Your mistress." "Your concubine." "Perhaps." "The only thing in life you ever truly love." "Fellas let's dance." "Grab a girl." "Don't point your gun forward." "I do not want to be shot today." "No matter how much you are tempted." "Place the weapon by your side." "Pay attention." "Problem Private Cornstock?" "Is there not one in your size?" "Or is it the color that is the issue?" "No Sarge." "I was told I don't have to carry a weapon." "Come again step forward Private." "I can't be hearing this right." "Well I'm sorry Sergeant." "I can't touch a gun." "What exactly is the problem?" "No problem just a mistake." " I told the army when I joined up." " It's impossible." "You know why it's not possible, Private?" "No, Sir." "Cause the United States Army does not make mistakes." "There's a problem." "You must be that problem." "I was never supposed to be sent to a rifle company." "He's a CO sir." "You're a "Conscientious Objector"." " And you joined the army." " Well no sir." "I'm a Conscientious Cooperator." " You just screwing with me Doss." " No." "No sir." "I volunteered." "I got no problem with wearing my uniform." "Saluting the flag and doing my duty." "It's just carrying a gun and taking a human life." "You don't kill." "That's all." "Yes sir." "That's all." "You know quite a bit of killing does occur in a war." "Yes, sir." "I mean that is the essential nature of war." "Yes sir." "Alright." "You have any other requirements for the United States army." "Is there anything else that we can do to ensure that you're comfortable with your stay here with us?" "He doesn't wanna work on Saturday, sir." "Well Saturday is..." "I'm a Seventh-Day Adventist so." "Saturday is my sabbath so I'm not allowed to work then." "I don't think that poses a problem." "Do you sergeant?" "We should simply ask the enemy not to invade on a Sabbath cause Private Doss here is a prayer." "Alright." "Now we got that clear." "Now let me tell you my requirements." "They're not as complicated as yours." "They are very simple." "As long as you're in this company under my command" "You're gonna obey my orders Period." "If you can't do it here." "I can't trust you to do it in the battle." "I'm putting you in for "Section 8"." "So I get your discharge." "Dismiss." "Gentlemen." "I want you to meet Private Desmond Doss." "Apparently." "Private Doss does not believe in violence." "He does not practice violence." "He will not even deign to touch a weapon." "You see Private Doss is a Conscientious Objector." "So I plead with you." "Do not look to him to save you on a battlefield." "Because he will undoubtedly be too busy wrestling with his conscience to assist." " Sarge, that's not true, sarge." " Private as you were." "I realize some of you might have strong feelings about this." "It is what we men fight for." "To defend our rights." "To protect our women and children." "Even if Private Doss's belief might cause women and children to die." "So I will expect every one in this company to give Private Doss the full measure of respect he is due." "For the short time he will be with us." "Am I clear?" "Yes, sergeant." "What you got here Daisy?" " You know what that is?" " Just seems kind of small." "It's half-the-Bible for half-the-man." "Pete's sake, Smitty give him back his Bible." "I don't remember speaking with you." "So how come you don't fight?" "Do you think you better than us?" "No." "Well, what if you're attacked." "Woah." "Did you like that?" "Bible says to turn your other cheekbone." "You see I don't think this is a question of religion, fellas." "I think this is cowardice." "Plain and simple." "You alright Doss?" "You chicken shit, that it?" "Go on." "Take a poke." "Okay I'm gonna give a free shot." "Right there." "Hit me Doss." "Go on." "What a matter?" "Go ahead." "No?" "Chicken shit!" " What is this?" " Give me that." "This is fine looking broad." " Wooooh." " Nice." "Now this would be the kind of broad" "That deserve a real man." "Give me that back." "Please." "Please." "Please give it back, Smitty." "Please give it back, Smitty." "Do you hear voices Desmond?" "No, Sir." "I understand that God talks to you." "Is that right?" "Sir, I'm not a crazy person." "Then how you feel most people regard you" "Crazy person." "I'm different I know that." "But" "I'm not gonna pretend to be something I'm not." "I am what I am." "Sounds lonely." "You lonely?" "So you don't hear voices." "No, sir." "I pray to God and I like to think He hears me but it aingt a conversation." "Like how I won't gonna pretend we have right now." "Pretending, Private?" "Yes, sir." "I know what you really wanna do is is give me "a Section 8" draw me out of the army." "But" "I'm not." "Up above." "I just simply believe what I believe." "Well I'm trying to understand." "Alright?" "Was it God who told you not to pick up a rifle?" "God says not to kill." "That one of His most important commandments." "Most people take that to only don't commit murder." "War is completely different set of circumstances." "Jesus said a new commandment I give them to you." "That you love one another." "Just as I love you." "This is satan himself we're fighting." "Sure as good Christian you can see that." "I can see that sir and that is why I joined up." "But I'm sorry I will not bear arms." "His religious view is certainly unique but they do not constitute ground for Section 8 discharge." "How am I suppose to maintain discipline with a man like that in my unit?" "I don't know." "But he is a legitimate Conscientious Objector." "He must be allowed to work as Combat Medic provided he qualifies in all other areas in his training." "Perhaps we could help make alleviant his idea." "Yeah you restrict him to barracks in K.P(KP duty, Kitchen Police or Kitchen Patrol)" "He throws God at you." "You throw hell right at him." "I want him gone." "Doss your area is in disgrace." "It's a pig stock." " Something funny Riker?" " No sarge." " You got some shit on your mind?" " No sarge." "What you men fail to recognize is a unit is no better than its weakest member." "I hope you learned that lesson." "There will be no passes this weekend." "You all will be on KP." "Right now everybody on full gear for 20-mile hike." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Get your heads right." "Don't start feeling sorry for yourself." "Makes me sick seeing you feel sorry for yourself." "You dogs don't know what tired is." "We gonna keep going till I drop." "Come on guys." "Hey knock it." "Knock it off." "Trying to sleep here." "Get off me." "Get off." "Why the hell you still here?" " Heed hut." " As you were." "Where's Doss?" "This isn't good for you buddy." "Sure aingt what I joined up for." "It's not about what you joined up for." "About the lives of every men in here." "And yours son." "It's time you quit this." "Finish getting dress and I'll walk you down." "It's okay Doss." "There's no shame in this." "Let's go." "I got an extra guard duty." "Today and I'm on KP this morning." "So" "I can't." "Alright Doss." "Private Doss." "Can you identify the men that beat you?" "No sarge." "Are you saying that you don't know who attack you?" "I never said I was attacked sarge." "What the hell are you saying Doss?" "You bruised half your body sleeping." "I sleep pretty hard." "Planning on getting wet this week make sure you put on a hat." "I don't want anyone back piss in cream." "What you don't want to offer your coffee Sarge." "How about a shot right now Smitty?" "Speaking from experience Sarge." "You have to ask your mom about that Greaseball." "At ease." "Private Doss." "I'm afraid I can't authorize your pass." "This is a furlough for men who had pass the basic training." "Respectfully sir I have." "I put in for this furlough three weeks ago." "I'm getting married this afternoon." "It says you're not rifle-qualified." "Well I'm not required to carry a rifle, sir." "Colonel Colonel Stelzer he he..." "Colonel Stelzer stipulation was" "Doss must be allowed to work as a combat medic." "Provided he qualifies in all other areas of his training." "And you have not qualified on the rifle range, Private." "Pretty clear." "Show me you know how to handle a rifle." "And I'll sign your furlough." "Corporal Cannon." "Hand Private Doss your firearm." "I won't touch a rifle, sir." "I'm not asking you Private." "That is a direct order from a company commander." "For God's sake Doss." "You stop this nonsense and quit." "Refuse." "And I will have no recourse but to court-martial you." "And you will spend the duration of the war in military prison." "I can't, sir." "How much longer would you like to wait, Dorothy?" "I think it's been long enough." "I'm so very sorry." "Sometimes men just get cold feet." "Some men might." "Not my Desmond." "You probably thinking I'm a really son of a bitch." "Who cares only about regulations and not his men." "May I?" "I believe in this Book as much as any men." "Just like any men." "I wrestled with my conscience." "But what do you do when everything you value in this world is under attacked." "I don't know, sir." "I aingt got answer to question that big." "But I also feel like my values are under attacked." "I don't know why." "I don't give a rat-ass about your principles because the Japs don't." "If one of them attacks you and some wounded soldiers." "What are you gonna do?" "Hit him with your Bible?" "I'm prepare to give my life for my men." "You don't win wars by giving up your life." "Look." "I'm only here because I don't wanna see you rotting in a prison cell." "Plead guilty." "Put yourself at the mercy of the court." "Maybe they'll let you go home and pray." "Let the brave men out there go and win this war." "If I can't convince you, maybe she can." "They wouldn't let me call you." "I know it wasn't your making." "What did they done to you?" "It's okay I'm alright." "Just a couple of rounds with a wall and lost." "They're saying you could go to prison Desmond." "Leaven worth." "There must be some other way." "I don't know what that could be." "I done everything they'd asked me except this one thing." "They've been treating me like a criminal just cause I won't kill." "You tried." "Nobody can say you didn't." "But who you gonna save in prison?" "Probably nobody." "Then why can't you just pick up the stupid gun and wave it around." "You don't have to use it." "Just made it half-way." "I can't do that." "Yes, you can." "It's just pride." "Pride and stubborness." "Don't confuse your will with the Lord's." "I've been proudful." "Maybe I'm proudful." "But I don't know how I'm gonna live with myself if I don't stay true to what I believe." "Watching us how you could live with me." "I wanna be a man and I wanna be in your eyes." "I fell in love with you." "Because you weren't like anyone else." "And you didn't try to be." "Do not think for one moment that you'll disappoint me." "I will love you." "No matter what." "I don't know what he's gonna do." "He loses no matter what." "They want him to plead guilty but then it'll get him dishonorable discharge." "Otherwise he fights them he will for sure go to prison." "Either way they'll call him a coward and I don't see how he can live with that." "Thank you Dorothy." "If you get to talk to him." "Tell him that we love him and that we'll pray for him and we'll pray for both of you." "I will." "Bye-bye." "Of course I'm out of my mind." "What do you think I am." "I'm out of my mind." "Will you leave this room." "Don't Tom." "Put it down." "Get away from me woman." "SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" "May I help you sir?" "I wish to speak to Brigadier General Musgrove." "Not without an appointment you can't." "That would be quite impossible." "If you would kinda tell him Corporal Thomas Doss would've appreciate a brief word." "He is in a very important meeting." "I fought with him in France at Belleau Wood." "He was my Captain." "Please maam." "It's most vital." "Be over in a minute." "You'll be home safe and sound like nothing ever happened." "This is a hearing in the matter of Private Doss." "The charge is disobeying a series of direct orders from his commanding officer." "How says the defendant?" "Private Doss wishes to enter a not guilty plea." "Is that so Private?" "I thought this was agreed." "You want to enter some sort of plea bargain." " Yes, sir." "But I changed my mind." " Just like that?" "You wish to proceed to a court martial." "Yes, sir." "Your on your head then Private." "Proceed." "Your honor." "Private Doss." "Wave his morality like it's some kind of badge of honor." "He flaunts his contempt." "By directly disobeying a series of direct order from his commanding officer." "When the very best of our young men are sacrificing their lives against evil." " You okay?" " Yes." " They still deliberating?" " Yes, sir." "Okay you go take this in there." "I can't." "It's strictly military personnel." "Well you get one of them to take it in." "They aingt no help." "They're fixing to burying him." "There's only one question that any military court need ask of the accused." "Do you deny disobeying Colonel Sangston's direct orders?" "Well." "Do you private?" "No, sir." "I don't." "Why are you contesting it, then?" "Why is it so important to you, given your refusal to even touch a weapon to serve in a combat unit?" "Because when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, I took it personal." "Everyone I knew was on fire to join up, including me." "There were two men in my hometown" "Declared 4-F unfit, they killed themselves cause they couldn't serve." "Why, I had a job in a defense plant." "I could've taken a deferment, but that aingt right." "It isn't right that other men should fight and die that I would just be sitting at home safe." "I need this, sir." "I got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic, right in the middle with the other guys." "No less danger, just... while everybody else is taking life, I'm going to be saving it." "With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together." "Sorry sir, nobody is allowed." "No." "You don't understand." "My son is the defendant." " I understand sir but nobody is allowed" " I have information." "Well, the sentiments expressed are laudable." "The facts of the charge seem incontestable so" "What the hell is going on out there?" "Let him go." "That's the Great War uniform." "It is, sir." "Sir, I need to show you this." "With respect, sir." "You are no longer a member of the military." "You unable to attend this meeting." "I'm sorry." "Is that truly the way it works?" "You fight for your country" "You lose so much ever dear to you." "And then you're done with?" "Uniform's forgotten." "You have no voice?" "You were enlist?" "I was sir Belleau Wood." "Twice decorated." "I see it sir." "I take it you're the father." "I am, sir." "Thomas Doss." "Then as former military man." "You know there are laws here." "Sir, I know the law." "I am." "I know my son is protected by those laws." "They are framed in our constitution." "And I believe in them as he does." "That's why I went and fought to protect them." "It's what I thought I was doing because if it wasn't for that then I have no idea what the hell I was doing there, sir." "Thank you Corporal Doss." "Let me have the letter." "You must go." "The defendant's rights as a Conscientious Objector are protected by an Act of Congress." "And he cannot be compelled to waive those rights." "That includes in this case his disobeying orders to bear arm." "Signed Brigadier General Musgrove." "War Services Commander, Washington DC." "Colonel." "I withdraw the charges." "Then this case is dismissed." "Private Doss you are free to run into the hell fire of battle without a single weapon to protect yourself." "You may resume your duties." "Begin training as a combat medic." " Where is he?" " Gone." "Straight after." "I begged him to stay." "I told him he want the same." "When you get home you tell him that I love him." "Okay." "You better come home to me." "OKINAWA, MAY 1945" "Uncle Sam is smiling." "Peaceful as a child" "But never get him rowdy" "Cut it out, Tom." " So now you wanna play?" " Shut up" " C'mon pipe down." " Shut up man." "Put a sock in it boy." "You save the choral for when we get there." "Your driver is here." "Give 'em room." " Clear." " Clear blue sky." "96th." "What's left of 'em." "These are the guys who replaced them." "Seems good to me." "It's cool." "All clear Sarge." "Captain Glover." "Lieutenant Manville. 96th." "We've been assigned to you, sir." "Okay." " Let's get these men some chow." " Yes, sir." " This is Sergeant Howell." " Good to meet you sir." "Who's Doss?" "Over there." "You Doss?" "Irv Schecter" "You and me and Peach here." "About the only medics we got left in this area." "So" "I guess we're going to be working together." "You just come off the line?" "What's it like?" "I said what's it like?" "Hacksaw?" "We caught it about six times." "Six times they threw us off." "Last time wasn't anything left for something to fix." "They're animals." "Stinking animals." "Nips don't care if they live or die." "They wanna die." "They keep coming at you." "They never gonna give up." "Never." "Hey buddy." "The Japs deliberately target the wounded." "Lose all your red cross markings." "Nips put a premium on shooting medics." "That white's a bull's-eye." "Here I got you a new helmet." "One-size-fits-all." "That's our objective." "Hacksaw Ridge." "We take it." "Maybe we get Okinawa." "We get Okinawa." "We take Japan." "Take a breather." "Our pals in the Navy are gonna soften them up for us." "Nobody can survive that shit." "Oh, but they can." "Lieutenant." "This bunkers here." "Here and here." "Is that accurate?" "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Maybe they are gonna look from the back but that's all." "It's all different." "Up there." "[All here accounted.]" "Gents." "Move out!" "It's blood." "No shit." "We're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy." "Keep climbing." "Here." "Come on give me your hand." "Make way." "Ralph, get this to Jessop." "Incoming!" "Get down!" "Get down!" "Where the hell are they?" "!" "I can't see them!" "Where the fuck?" "!" "Medic!" "Over here!" "Put your hand right here." "Put your hand on that gut." "Come on." "We're gonna get you under cover." "Keep moving forward." "Can't see anything." "It's that one?" "I dunno where to shoot." "Alright let's go." "Dino!" "Oh shit!" "Doss, Dino's down." "I'm coming." "Get out of the way!" "You hurt?" "I'm fine." "Come on!" "I got you." "Breath." "Just breath." "Breath." "It's okay." "Just breath." "Just breath." "I got you." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Give him a shot of morphine and move on." "He's not gonna last a day." "Please." "Please Doss." "No." "No." "Don't leave me." "Don't leave me." "Please don't leave me." "I got kids." "Please!" "Please dont!" "Please don't leave me!" "I aingt going anywhere!" "I'm going to get you home." "I got you Ralph." "Okay!" "I'm gonna get you home." "Here's come the morphine." "Here's come the morphine." "Just gonna kick it real quick, Ralph." "We gonna get you shifted." "Stretcher!" "Stretcher!" "Get up!" "Keep moving!" "Sergeant." "I'm wounded." "There's nothing wrong with you." "Shit!" "Hang on kid." "Move!" "A soldier who doesn't is a dead one." "We got a priority." "Priority." "You haven't of triage?" " He'll be dead before we get 'em down." " You don't know that." "Get him down!" "Alright!" "Huh?" " Okay." " Okay." "Okay." "Go!" "It's alright buddy." "We gonna get you home." "Medic!" "Help!" "Help!" "I figured if we can't see them and they can't see us neither." "Help!" "I took it bad." "I got it Frank." "Where you hit?" "I think they just did smart-ass!" " Come on," " Come on, give me your hand here." "Get down sir." "Over there!" "The bunkers!" "I do." "Better stay down sir." "I got 'em!" "Dead ahead!" "Yeah." "I see them too." "Get ready give 'em everything you got." "I'll sent them a weapon's team to flank them." "Be there tight." "You gonna be right as new." " Alright?" " I got it Doss." "Got it." "Hey" "You doing okay?" "Okay." "Fire!" "Go!" "Son of a bitch!" "Get 'em." "Get on it!" " Yes sir." " Now!" "Smoke!" "Corpsman." "Go!" "Go!" "Ghoul!" "Get in the hole." "Mother..." "Go!" "Be strong!" "Cover!" "Satchels!" "Ghoul?" "Here!" "C'mon stick it." "Stick it Ghoul." "Cover!" "Cover!" "Son of a..." "Cover his ass!" "Go!" "Medic!" "I'm here." "Put your hand on it." "Put your hand on it!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Ghoul." "Ghoul." "Where you hit?" "I don't know." "You not hit in the head that's okay." "What's your name?" "Andy." "Andy what?" "Andy Walker." "Also known as?" " Ghoul." " Ghoul." "Ghoul you're okay." "You're okay." "Good job men." "Good work." "Take it for the night." "We hold this spot." "We mop up the rest of the ridge tomorrow." "Okay boys." "Find yourself a nice safe hole." "End or near the bunker." "We'll take watch every two hours." "We don't know what's out there." "Heads down, asses lower." "Shoot anything that don't speak English." "That includes Grease Sarge?" "Particularly him." "I don't care if he needed to take a piss or a dump." "It aingt safe to go out there alone." "Where the hell you going Doss?" "Still more wounded out there Sarge." "I'll go with him." "Be smart keep your ears down." "Alright let's find a spot." "You know Henry dead in the first 15 minutes." "Just straight off." "It's straight off." "Peterson." "Popeye." "Stanford and Murphy." "In peace sons bury their father." "In war fathers bury their sons." "Wanna stop spouting that crap out?" "It don't help none." "Yeah." "Yeah, you got that right." "Not here." "Hey." "Give me that." "Hey!" "Hey!" "We got an abdominal wound." " This lad is gonna need some plasma." " You got it." "He'll be with us." "We got you." "Should we find a hole and dig in?" "Sounds good to me." "Put your helmet on." "You gonna eat them?" "I don't eat meat." "Help yourself." "Of course you don't." "That's one heck of a dame." "You know you find that you whack us with her don't you?" "Yes, I do." "Don't tell her that." "She won't be much happy with a man like me anyway." "Yeah until she got to know you." "I'm an asshole sometimes." "Sometimes?" "You're alright." "These Japs are sneaky." "I take first watch." "Now you get some shut eye." "Hell of a dream?" "I dreamed I got myself killed." "I can't do nothing." "Rifles just do." "It won't bite." "Yeah, well." "Look around you." "After what we've been through." "Any sane man would be screaming for a weapon." "I never claimed to be sane." "My daddy's a drunk." "He fought it for years but it kinda got a hold of him hard and made him mean." "At least you know when mine could've been with any one of the ten guys" "And none of them would worth a damn." "So your momma raise you?" "I knew her." "But she gave me to an orphanage when I was five." "Never saw her again." "I know how to act quick." "But now I judge people quicker and I got you very wrong." "My dad used to beat me and my brother just cause the sun rose and whip us cause it sets." "I could take that." "But when he would do it to our momma." "That's enough." "No more." "Do you hear me?" "Pull that damn trigger." "Don't Desmond." "Stop!" "But you didn't kill him." "In my heart I did." "So that's why I made my promise to God I aingt never gonna touch a gun again." "Well I aingt giving you mine cause you're crazy." "Move!" "Move!" "Get your assess over there!" " Why don't we..." "let's go." " Go!" "Go!" "Go back!" "Fall back!" "Go!" "They're coming from underground!" "Sir!" "Sir!" "This is Baker Six request immediate support!" "Target is North Thirty Five One Five" "Don't you notice where you are?" "Yes, I notice where the hell we are but I don't expect to be here much longer." "I called an artillery strike!" "Fall back!" "Move!" "Move!" "Fall back!" "Get some!" "Cover me!" "Go!" "Go!" "Argh!" "Get out of here, kid!" "Come here, son!" "You know what to do!" "Keep pressure on it!" "No!" "Don't need plasma!" "Give it to him!" "Over there!" "I'll be okay." "Go!" "Go!" " Reece!" " What?" "!" " Get on the back!" " You got it!" "Okay see you soon." "C'mon." "C'mon!" "We gotta move right now!" "C'mon!" "C'mon!" "Move!" "Move!" "I'm scared." "I'm scared." "This gonna help the pain." "No!" "Don't!" "Dont'!" "Don't you do that!" "C'mon!" "C'mon Smitty you stay with me!" "Let's go we gotta move!" "Hey!" "Help me get him down." "Help me get him down!" "Come on let's move." "Come on." "Can't help you buddy." "He's gone." "No." "Come on." "We got to get out of here." "Down the rope!" "After it." "Where does it He want me?" "I don't understand." "I can't hear You." "Help me!" "Alright!" "How many?" "32 only came down, sir." "Good Lord." " Let sow them up." " Yes, sir." "Harry." "It's Desmond." "We gonna fix you up." "You just gotta keep breathing." "Okay" "Colonel want to see you, sir." "I need your jeep." "You two stay here and keep watch." "Keep your eyes peel for Japs." "No." "But the..." "Stay here and keep watch!" "Yes, sir." "Help!" "Help me." "Watch out!" "I got you." "Put your hand on it." "Keep pressure on it." "I'm coming back." " Okay." " Don't leave." "Easy fellas." "Easy." "Here we go." "Okay guys let's go." "One-Two-Three." "Move." "It's okay." "All we together" "I got you here" "Just sit tight, okay." "You okay buddy." "Son of a gun." "This is gonn a work" "One for each leg." "We gonna get you dress up in a jiffy." "And get you down." "I got you." "I got you now." "You can trust me." "Japs!" "Hold on." "One of ours." "Hold on." "Let's go." "Let's go." "I got you." "I got you." "Come on." "I got you." "You okay." "You okay." "Hey!" "Another one." "Colonel." "Call off the artillery attack on Hacksaw." "Couldn't pull it in." "There's still over a 100 men left out there." "Tell them to call off the artillery on Hacksaw." "[Radio] Able-Baker-One, over." "Sit down Jack." "I get you a drink." "Just lost our cover." "They're starting." "We gotta move." "About time." "They just keep coming." "Okay." "Pick it up." "I got this." "Doss." "Doss." "Help." "Help me." "You gonna have to trust me." "Take a breath." "Let's go buddy." "Let's go." "Jack." "You don't know if your men out there are dead or alive." "We can't go back up there without reinforcement." "You'll end up killing the rest." "So give me the reinforcement." "I don't have any fresh men." "I don't have any troops." "3 batallions got wipe out today." "And it'll take more than a day to get men here." "I need them faster than that." "It's okay." "It's okay." "It's alright." "It's alright." "It's okay." "Morphine it's good." "Shhh." "Medic." "Medic." "Medic." "It's Doss." "It's Doss." "Be quiet." "Be quiet." "We got you." "Where you hit?" "I can't see." "Be quiet." "Just be quiet." "Hold still now." "I got you." "Hold tight." "There you go." "Try that." "Try that." "I thought I was blind." "Shhh." "Keep it down." "Can you walk?" "I don't know." " Cause we gotta get out of here." " Okay." "Okay we got you." "We got you." "Hey, there." "It's me Desmond." "Fix you up." "You ready to get out here." "I'm sure am." "Please Lord." "Help me get one more." "Help me get one more." "Please help me get one more." "One more." "Help me get one more." "One more." "Help me get one more." "One more." "Coming through." "Where the hell these guys coming from?" "Hacksaw." "I thought they pulled out." "Not all of them." "Some nuts out there drive the wounded from the top." "Even lowered a couple of Japs." "They didn't make it" "Get back with you directly." "Easy." "Easy." "All set." "Move out." "Let's go." "Get in here." "There's Nips everywhere." "Son of a bitch." "Private Cornstock." "You're nothing if not full of surprises." " You want some morphine." " Hell yes." "That or both." "Okay." "There." "There you go." "Alright." "Easy." "Let me see." "How's this?" "Okay." "Not bad." "Let me see." "I'll make much much than this." "But girls still won't kiss you." "Sarge." "You okay here for a while?" "Yeah I'm fine." "Get outta here." "I'm coming back." "You ready?" "Let's go." "You and me." "C'mon." "Captain." "Something you gotta see." "Our guys have been coming down in droves all night." "And Hollywood's here." "I never thought I'd see that guy again." "Come on follow me." "He's right here." "What the hell is this?" "How you doing sir?" "Hey, Cap." "Captain." "It's good to see you kid." "God bless, sir." "How you get down, son?" "It's Doss." "Howell's still out there." "Howell and Doss did this?" "No, sir." "It's just Doss." " Just Doss?" " Just Doss." "Yeah Doss the Coward." "You like gun on a shoe aingt ya." "Give me this." "It's a bit late for target practice now don't you think." "Jump on it." "You kidding?" "No, I'm gonna drag you." "Let's do it." " Ready?" " Yeah" "Let's go!" "We got company." "Come on." "We're gonna jump." "You gotta be kidding me, Cornstock?" "You got a bowline, not building a bra." "Come on!" " Ready?" " Ah huh." "Get off!" " Put me down!" " Yes, Sergeant." "Sergeant Howell." "Doss is still up there." "What the hell?" "He's got Japs on his tail." "We got him." "It's good." "It's good." "Woah." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Doss." "You're safe." "Okay." "Desmond." "Easy." "Here come on." "Take a seat." "Are you wounded?" "No." "No." "Let's get this soldier to a hospital tent right now." "Come on easy now." "Easy." "Easy." "Where's Irv?" "Irv." "You mean Schecter the Medic?" "He didn't make it." "He died of shocked." "No plasma." "Sorry." "All I saw was a skinny kid." "I didn't know who you were." "You done more than any other men could've done in a service to his country." "I have never been more wrong about someone in my life." "I hope one day you could forgive me." "We have to go back up tomorrow." "I realize that tomorrow is your Sabbath." "Most of these men don't believe the same way you do." "They believe so much" "How much you believe." "What you did on that Ridge is nothing short of miracle." "They wanna piece of it." "They're not gonna go up there without you." "What the hell is your delay, Captain?" "You supposed to begin that assault 10 minutes ago." "We're waiting, sir." "Waiting for what?" "Private Doss to finish praying for us, sir." " Private Doss is praying for you." " Who the hell is Private Doss?" "Let's go to work." "Down!" "Get down!" "Get down on the ground!" "On the ground now!" "Lay down!" "Lay down!" "I got the morphine." "Let's go!" "Let's go." "Let's get this man outta here." "Go!" "Go!" "My Bible." "My Bible." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "My Bible." "My Bible." "Okay." "You going home Desmond." "We've taken the Hacksaw." "Hold up!" "Hold up!" "Desmond." "Desmond." "Desmond Doss carried 75 wounded men to safety on Hacksaw Ridage." "He was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor, America's award for courage under fire." "Desmond and Dorothy were married until her death in 1991." "Of his own heroics, he remained characteristically modest, giving all the credit to his God." "I was praying the whole time." "I just start praying to the Lord please let me get one more." "When I got this I said "Alright Lord please help me get one more"." "He said simply, "The real heros are buried over there"" "I would say anyone is wrong to try to compromise somebody's conviction." "I don't care it's the army or what it is." "When you're on a conviction" "That is not a joke." "That's what you are." "Captain Jack Glover" "Even though I said those things to him in regard to carrying a rifle." "Then he would never be on my damn side at all unless he had a rifle." "But then in the long run." "Finding out that he was one of the bravest person alive." "And then to have him ended up saving my life was the irony of the whole thing." "Blood it ran down through this fellow's face and eyes." "It was when that he go in and called for medic." "I took the water from my canteen and got some bandages." "And I wash his face." "And when I wipe" "Washed up his eyes." "Eyes came out" "Man, he just lit up." "He says I thought I was blind." "And if I hadn't got anything more to what that smile he gave me." "I wouldn't have been well repaid." "Desmond Doss passed away of the age of 87 in March 2006"