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Pushpal h doss1/29/2024 Doss hears the cries of dying soldiers and returns to save them, carrying the wounded to the cliff's edge and belaying them down by rope, each time praying to save one more. Smitty is killed, while Howell and several of Doss' squad mates are left injured on the battlefield. The next morning, the Japanese launch a massive counterattack and drive the Americans off the escarpment. Smitty apologizes for doubting his courage, and the two reconcile. As the Americans camp for the night, Doss reveals to Smitty that his aversion to holding a firearm stems from nearly shooting his drunken father, who threatened his mother with a gun. Doss saves his squadmate Smitty, earning his respect. Both sides suffer heavy losses during the initial fight. During the Battle of Okinawa, Doss' unit is informed that they are to relieve the 96th Infantry Division, which was tasked with ascending and securing the Maeda Escarpment ("Hacksaw Ridge"). Doss' unit is assigned to the 77th Infantry Division and deployed to the Pacific theater. The charges against Doss are dropped, and he and Dorothy are married. At his trial Doss pleads not guilty, but before he is sentenced, his father barges into the tribunal with a letter from a former commanding officer stating that his son's pacifism is protected by an Act of Congress. Captain Glover and Dorothy visit Doss in jail and try to convince him to plead guilty so that he can be released without charge, but Doss refuses to compromise his beliefs. Doss' unit completes basic training and is released on leave, during which Doss intends to marry Dorothy, but his refusal to carry a firearm leads to an arrest for insubordination. Despite being beaten one night by his fellow soldiers, he refuses to identify his attackers and continues training. They subsequently torment Doss by putting him through grueling labor, intending to get Doss to leave of his own accord. Howell and Captain Glover attempt to discharge Doss for psychiatric reasons but are overruled, as Doss' religious beliefs do not constitute mental illness. He excels physically, but becomes an outcast among his fellow soldiers for refusing to handle a rifle and train on Saturdays. Doss is placed under the command of Sergeant Howell. Before leaving for Fort Jackson, he asks for Dorothy's hand in marriage and she accepts. His father Tom, a World War I veteran, is deeply upset by the decision. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Doss enlists in the Army to serve as a combat medic. The two strike a romance and Doss tells Dorothy of his interest in medical work. Years later, Doss takes an injured man to the hospital and meets a nurse, Dorothy Schutte. This event and his Seventh-day Adventist upbringing reinforce Desmond's belief in the commandment "Thou shalt not kill". In rural 1920s Virginia, the young Desmond Doss nearly kills his little brother Hal while roughhousing. A win there would ensure that the Empire of Japan surrenders to the Allied Forces. They get posted to Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa. The rigorous regimen of training in the Army requires Desmond to clear his firearms training, but after a huge tiff with his seniors, his father, an old corporal, intervenes to save Desmond from being court-martialed and serve with the Army as a medic. After the United States enters the Second World War, both sons enlist, adding to the ire of the father who despises his sons joining the Army. In the hospital, he is smitten by a nurse, who he then dates. Desmond then saves the life of a worker, experiencing a wholesome satisfaction in the process. After a naughty fight turns awry, Desmond reads the Bible and vows not to harm another human in his life thereafter. Back home, he raises his sons in a pious setting and asks them to shun weapons. An American army veteran grieves by the tombstones of his army company that died during World War I.
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