Desmond's brother Hal also fought in the Pacific.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Hacksaw Ridge recounts the courageous true story of Desmond Doss, a U.S. Army private and a pacifist who went on to save the lives of dozens of his fellow soldiers in the bloody Pacific theater of World War II. Desmond Doss's refusal to touch a gun is what set him apart from the soldiers he served with in a combat unit.
Desmond takes the Bible, in particular God's Commandments, quite literally, leading to his refusal to touch a gun or kill even in the face of a court-martial and actual physical abuse from his fellow soldiers. In the movie, the groundwork for his beliefs is traced back to an incident in his youth, in which he severely injured his brother Harold in a fight by hitting him in the head with a brick.
Like Desmond, as depicted in Hackasaw Ridge, Harold Doss maintained his faith. He was a member of the Martinsburg Seventh-Day Adventist Church at the time of his death. Harold Doss passed away in 2007 at the age of 84 and was survived by a number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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