Hi Charlie,
I am writing this article to tell you about a great movie that I just saw a couple weeks ago at the movies. It's called "Hacksaw Ridge" or "Tu ne tueras point" in French. It's a drama film about history by the director Mel Gibson. This story is fascinating because it talks about a true story, the story of Desmond T. Doss during the second world war.
Desmond Doss's father was a former soldier and when he returned from war he had become a violent alcoholic and would beat his wife. Desmond could no longer support his father's attitude towards his mother, so one night when his parents were fighting, he got up and found his dad with a gun in hand aiming his mother. Desmond took the gun and pointed it on his father. He was determined to shoot but his mother dissuaded him from doing so because they were christian and as the old testament said, "Thou shalt not kill". From then on Desmond said that he would no longer touch a firearm.
A couple years later, Desmond fell in love with a nurse named Dorothy Schutte, and they chose to get married. However, Desmond Doss wanted to fight for his country like all the other young men, but unlike the others he refused to carry or use any firearm and refused to work on Saturdays because of his religion. He wanted to serve as a combat medic. During his training people would bully him because they said he was a coward. Even though he had become an outcast he did not give up. Even the captains wanted him out because they thought he was useless and they couldn't take with them to battle a conscientious objector. With his hard work and with the help of his father he was allowed to go to the front.
The scenes in the battle front are very tense and you realize how horrible it was there. Desmond did his job all the way and saved as many people as he could. He even stayed when everyone of his team had left. Without killing anyone he saved 75 wounded people from the battle field. After his service he received the Medal of Honor for bravery. He is a true HERO.
Here is the link to the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BqgHYLvHIE
You have to watch it. Honestly it's probably my favorite movie.
I think I've heard about this movie, your article reminded me to see it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your article!
This is why people like him (he's real right?) deserve more respect: you can fight for whateer governement, if your actions on the battlefield are remarkable, you will go down in History as a Hero.
ReplyDeleteTake the example of Franz Stigler: he served the Nazi governement but he saved the whole crew of a B-17 by escorting them out of the battlefield (well... "air battlefield").
I will soon make an article about Sabaton, those guys manage to enlight military history in a way no one does.
Thanks for the article though!
My father told me about this man! I don't usually like war movies but I do like people who don't go with the flow (and he's one of them right?) so thank you for this article!
ReplyDeleteA friend told me about this movie but it did not seem attractive at first but when I watched the first minutes I was caught in until the end, it is impressive to see how far his will not to hold gun guides him.
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