Always Taking It Too Far
Doss spent most of his childhood like any other kid in the ‘20s. He flattened pennies on the railroad tracks near his home and was always wrestling his younger brother, Harold. Harold always said Desmond wasn’t that much fun to wrestle, but it wasn’t because Doss was particularly good at wrestling. According to Harold, Desmond never knew when to give up a fight.
Source: Courtesy of the Desmond Doss Council
He would keep on wrestling his brother without surrendering. Little did Harold, or anyone else for that matter, know that his physical resilience would help him earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the Pacific.