Unlikeliest Hero

As a kid growing up, it was my pleasure to read several times the book "The Unlikeliest Hero" by Booton Herndon. This book was about Desmond T. Doss, the Seventh-Day Adventist conscientious objector who rescued a number of men while serving as a medical corpsman in WWII in the Pacific. During my college years, I met Desmond Doss when a group of us went to his house in Rising Fawn, GA (on Lookout Mountain) one Saturday afternoon. One of the group had made the arrangements, and we showed up and spent the afternoon with him and his wife, listening to him tell stories.

Recently, my brother found out, quite by accident, that Desmond had died and he forwarded me his obituary as posted on http://www.findagrave.com. Here is the link to the obituary itself: http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13711681.

No greater love hath a man, that he lay down his life for a friend (something like that goes the quote from....).