Religion: God & the Other Fellow

Like his Master, he was a carpenter. He was also a Seventh-Day Adventist, and a pacifist. Desmond T. Doss, of Lynchburg, Va., refused to bear arms in World War II. He explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty to his fellowman.

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