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rug

(82,333 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 12:14 PM Oct 2014

Desmond Doss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

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In WWII, no medics carried weapons. malthaussen Oct 2014 #1

malthaussen

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1. In WWII, no medics carried weapons.

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Tue Oct 7, 2014, 12:40 PM

Oct 2014

It was a violation of the Geneva Convention. And quite a few people have won the MoH without killing people. So the pic is a little misleading. His being a CO and winning the MoH is what makes him special.

-- Mal

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