Back when Men were Men!
Check out the trailer for Hacksaw Ridge.
I about fell out when I watched it.
Anyone that knows me knows I'm a gun nut, but Grandpa didn't tolerate any talk about guns at his house. It was just about the only rule we had when we were with him.
One year, When I was a child and couldn't actually mow yet, I saw my grandfather without his shirt on. He had been mowing and He had this stuff all over, it looked like black spots all over his back, some had blood trickling into the sweat because they stook out a little. I asked him what it was and he said it was the war coming out of him. I later figured out that they don't always remove shrapnel..sometimes they leave it in because getting it out would cause too much damage. This shit literally leaked out of his body his entire life. Slowly.
Papaw tried to CO out of the draft because his Pentecostal belief didn't allow for the taking of human life. He went before the draft board and they asked him if he was against killing or against the army. Long story short he ended up a medic in the 504PIR during the invasion of Sicily in 43. He was dropping patients of at the field hospital when it was bombed. He looked over, saw his buddy had his legs blown off, grabbed that man up and carried him to the next field hospital. Something like 3 miles or whatever. When papaw laid the man down my papaws guts fell out on that man. Trying to save his friends life saved his life. They actually had him back in England and offered to send him home due to his injuries and he says, "I was so drugged up Brandon they could have asked me if I believed in unicorns and I'd have said yes".. I think he was full of shit and wanted to go back to his unit.
He was allowed to go back to the field but the 504th was for all intent depleted. He got reassigned to the 508th just in time for D-Day. He said the rest of the war was a cake walk after getting blown up. He said he figured if God was going to take him he would have done it in Sicily.
So basically papaw was a bad mofo. Lol. He jumped into Sicily and got blown up, then he jumped into Normandy and walked to Berlin, all without a Gun because the King James Version says, "Thou shalt not kill."
