the only conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal Of Honor was buried a few days ago in Tennessee.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/04/doss.funeral.ap/index.html

4/9/2006 12:05:25 AM

damn, dude sounds pretty hardcore

4/9/2006 12:12:03 AM

props to him

4/9/2006 12:12:53 AM

nothing wrong with killing... when it's for the right reason(s).

4/9/2006 12:21:23 AM

^I agree, but the man's still a hero in my book

4/9/2006 12:23:14 AM

Citation

http://history.amedd.army.mil/moh/dossd.htm

4/9/2006 12:24:27 AM

Quote :

"conscientious objector"

that just sounds strange...

yea, that guy was pretty hardcore

4/9/2006 12:25:14 AM

^^i agree, but i respect someone's decision not to, particularly if they handle it the way this guy did. that's a strong showing.

4/9/2006 12:26:34 AM

thats pretty sweet

4/9/2006 12:32:16 AM

if you ever meet anyone with an MOH, you know why they only give it to that 1/10000 type of troop

4/9/2006 1:33:36 AM

sounds like a great guy who deserves to be remembered

4/9/2006 1:40:57 AM

man he had some balls, big granite balls.

4/9/2006 1:11:35 PM

As a former Army medic, I can say that dude is a true hero.....RIP.

4/9/2006 1:20:50 PM

Anybody know why he was a CO? Was he a Quaker, or did he have non-religious reasons

4/9/2006 1:33:30 PM

i think some people just don't like killing other people...

4/9/2006 1:39:41 PM

He was a medic

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4/9/2006 5:05:03 PM

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"Anybody know why he was a CO? Was he a Quaker, or did he have non-religious reasons "

Seventh-Day Adventist


http://www.homeofheroes.com/profiles/profiles_doss.html

4/9/2006 6:19:58 PM

Someone on another forum put it pretty well: that's the difference between a Liberal and a Leftist.

All-American, even if he didn't quite agree with what his government was telling him to do.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20060407-9999-1n7valor.html

Medics have all got to be fucking insane.

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 4:45 AM. Reason : .]

4/10/2006 4:42:54 AM

Damn. That has to be the most admirable soilder I think i have ever heard of.......

talk about fuckin brave....

4/10/2006 4:06:24 PM

plenty of MOH citations are just as crazy

but I'm not taking anything away from this guy when I say that.

4/10/2006 4:16:43 PM

Yeah, there's crazy psycho (school shooters) and there's crazy badass (combat medics).

[Edited on April 10, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : .]

4/10/2006 4:22:15 PM

Cleary, objecting to him was far far more than an easy way out. Good for him. Sort of sickening - you see people running for president (from both parties) who try to account for "what they were doing when they were called upon" and somehow come up short, but there are people who absolutely don't believe in killing serving with everything they have.

4/10/2006 11:44:23 PM