No Guns on Their Shoulders / Ford, Herbert / (HB/1968-1968/B+/USED)

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In far wars has greater emphasis been placed on saving lives than in the war in Vietnam. Modern medical skill and technology have helped reduce the number of deaths caused by combat wounds to an alltime low. But not all the credit belongs to technology and skilled physicians. The medic who accompanies the fighting men into battle deserves much of the credit, for it is the medic who, often at the risk of his own life, first renders aid to the fallen soldier. He is the first link in the lifesaving chain in Vietnam.

When the cry "I'm hit!" goes up on the battlefield, the medic is expected to do his duty, and the fact that many medics are among the men decorated for valor in Vietnam is ample tribute to the personal courage and devotion to duty on the part of the medical aidmen in the field. Among these brave men are many medics who go unarmed into battle, and it is about them that No Guns on their Shoulders is written.

Most of these unarmed medics are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose tenets stress the value of human life. The Adventist denomination operates an organization called the Medical Cadet Corps, similar to ROTC, to provide preinduction training for its young men to help them prepare for service as medics in the Armed Forces. This training program has been approved by th eSurgeon General's office, and medical units of the army frequently assist in field exercises for the cadets. The church, however, pays the full expense of the program, and cadets supply their own uniforms and equipment.

Thus when they are called up for duty, young Adventists enter military service willingly, and many of them have been decorated in recognition of their heroism and devotion to the highest ideals of servie to their fellowman. Several of them have also been killed in the line of duty.

This book is the story of some of the young Seventh-day Adventist medics who go into battle armed not with guns but rather with faith in God. It is a war story, but it is also a story of man's spiritual attainment, of man's humanity to man.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Background to Battle
"They have us sighted . . . Don't move"
"I could hear the lead snapping . . ."
". . . like a squirrle running through dry leaves"
"It was . . . just like a furnace in there"
Some will die . . .
"Without Him I would have . . . broken every commandment . . ."
"I was in the ditch, and Charlie was on top . . ."
"The sergeant wanted me to pray . . ."
"Everyone is scared . . . with or without a weapon"
"Get those sandbags filled, soldier!"
". . . he might go to hell"
". . . you could tell by the smiles on their faces . . ."
"If they hit the ammo, good-bye to us!"
". . . I'm receiving sniper from the front"
"I was supposed to be . . . behind the man . . . killed!"
"Each night it was 'dig in,' each morning 'move out'"
"There is no prettier sight at night . . ."
". . . I had been driving the truck . . ."
"I hope they will remember me as serving Christ"
". . . Charlie wasn't going to get the best of us"
"You were a lucky man last night"
". . . why don't you give up your citizenship?"
Epilogue

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