NF Hacksaw Ridge

[Burning Billy]

Anyone else looking forward to this movie?

The trailer looks great.

The real person the film is based on:

 

[Legion Para]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492898562/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

The Medic: Miracle on Hacksaw Ridge

During WWII, a young man from Lynchburg, Virginia was drafted into the Army and sent to the 77th Infantry Division. When he arrived at camp for basic training, he promptly made it known that he was a pacifist and would be unwilling to take a life or even so much as touch a weapon. He did however say that he would be proud to serve his country as a medic, if they would let him.

No matter how much pressure the Army applied, the medic was unwilling to compromise his convictions. The other soldiers in his unit came to hate the conscientious objector, going so far as to throw their boots at him while he knelt by his bunk at night to pray.

When the men of Company B assaulted "Hacksaw Ridge" on the island of Okinawa, something happened that would change their opinion of the medic forever.

 

[Legion Para]

 

[Legion Para]

 

[Legion Para]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0816321248/?tag=civilwartalkc-20


Desmond Doss: Conscientious Objector: The Story of an Unlikely Hero

Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately 75 men from the 1st Battalion, Private Doss refused to seek cover and carried his stricken comrades to safety one by one. This and other heroic acts earned him the highest honor America can bestow on one of her sons - the congressional Medal of Honor.

But his story doesn't end in 1945. There have been many other battles and victories for the man known as "the unlikeliest hero," and this book tells those stories.

From ancient-prone childhood to World War II gallantry, the tragic loss of his first wife, Dorothy, and his battles with deafness and cancer, Desmond Doss has lived a life of unsurpassed devotion - devotion to his country, his convictions, and his God.

 

[Seduzal]

No.

 

[Burning Billy]

No.

Just out of curiosity, how come? Didn't care for the trailer, boycotting Mel Gibson, not interested in a story about a conscientious objector, ect?

 

[Seduzal]

Anyone else looking forward to this movie?

Just out of curiosity, how come? Didn't care for the trailer, boycotting Mel Gibson, not interested in a story about a conscientious objector, ect?

You asked the question in the first post. I answered no. Not interested in this kind of stories.

 

[redbob]

They had a preshowing of this movie the other day at Fort Benning and while he was in the area, Mel Gibson went to Auburn, Alabama to visit Colonel Hal Moore whom he portrayed in the movie We Were Soldiers Once.

 

[johan_steele]

Wonderful story and one I suspect Mel Gibson will do justice to.

 

[Burning Billy]

@Seduzal

I was just asking out of curiosity, since you didn't elaborate.

You don't have to give a reason why not of course, but you could also say that in a less confrontational manner.