Corporal Doss receiving the Medal of Honor from
President Harry S. Truman.

Private First Class Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia,
was presented the Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery
as a combat medic, the first conscientious objector in
American history to receive the nation’s highest military
award.
 

When called on by his country to fight in World War II, Doss,
a dedicated pacifist, registered as a conscientious objector.

Eventually sent to the Pacific theater of war as a medical
corpsman, Doss voluntarily put his life in the utmost peril
during the bloody Battle for Okinawa, saving dozens of lives
well beyond the call of duty.

Desmond Thomas Doss
(February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006)

The 2016 film directed by Mel Gibson focuses
on the combat experiences of Desmond Doss.

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission,was launched with
astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Donn F. Eisele; and Walter
Cunningham aboard.

Under the command of Schirra, the crew of Apollo 7 conducted
an 11-day orbit of Earth, during which the crew transmitted the
first live television broadcasts from orbit.

The prime crew of the first manned Apollo space mission
from left to right are: Command Module pilot, Don F. Eisele, Commander, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Lunar Module pilot,
Walter Cunningham.

The Daughters of the American Revolution, comprised of
women in the United States and around the world who
descend from patriots of the nation’s fight for it’s
independence, was founded in Washington, D.C. on
this day in history, Oct. 11, 1890.

The    groups website says,The DAR "is a nonprofit, non-
political volunteer women’s service organization dedicated
to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and
securing America’s future through better education for
children."

The patriotic all-female organization devoted to ‘God, Home
and Country’ has 190,000 members worldwide.

The Daughters of the American Revolution headquarters
photo (1890 – 1900).

Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin.

The sock, with Irvine’s name, was found along with a boot
and a foot, emerging from the ice of the Central Rongbuk 
Glacier.

Oxford student Andrew “Sandy” Irvine.

In the last photo taken of the mountaineers, George Mallory
(left) and Sandy Irvine prepare to leave the North Col of
Everest in June 1924.