One More on Hacksaw Ridge
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss lay flat on the edge of a thirty-five-foot cliff on Okinawa — a jagged escarpment the soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge. Japanese forces had driven his entire company back over the edge. Seventy-five wounded men remained stranded on the plateau above, exposed to enemy fire.
Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist who had refused to carry a rifle, had only one weapon: prayer. Crouched against the rock, he repeated the same five words over and over: "Lord, help me get one more."
Then he crawled back into the carnage. One by one, he dragged wounded soldiers to the cliff's edge, lowered them on a makeshift rope litter, and whispered his prayer again. For hours — through gunfire, mortar blasts, and sheer exhaustion — Doss ran not to a bunker or a foxhole, but to the name of the Lord.
By morning, seventy-five men were alive because one unarmed medic treated the name of God as his fortress.
Proverbs 18:10 says, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe." Desmond Doss had no weapon, no armor, no tactical advantage. But he had a Name to run to — and that Name held him through the longest night of his life. The same tower stands open for you today.
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