BEDFORD, Va. (WSET) -- The National D-Day Memorial is hosting Desmond Doss Jr. for a special talk on his father's life and legacy on July 4 at 10 a.m. at the Bedford Area Welcome Center.Desmond ...

Desmond Doss, Jr. holds correspondence about his father, the subject of the film "Hacksaw Ridge," while on a dock in Ilwaco, Wash. Doss Jr. has been flooded with emails and letters regarding his ...

BEDFORD Co., Va. (WSET) -- He traveled all the way from Washington to speak to residents in our area.Desmond Doss, Jr. celebrated the Fourth at an event hosted by the National D-Day Memorial on ...

Desmond Doss returned home in 1946 with serious injuries in his arm and legs. He had contracted tuberculosis. Desmond Jr. was 5 years old by the time his father was no longer contagious and able ...

Local hero Desmond Doss is coming to the big screen. September 18, 2015 at 1:00 a.m. ... Va., whose mother taught him the Ten Commandments and whose father drank too much.

Mel Gibson’s new film “Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of a World War II soldier, Desmond Doss, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly rescuing 75 wounded soldiers.

Growing up as Doss's son, Desmond Jr. says he heard the tale of his father's heroics many times. Despite knowing the story's facts, Desmond Jr. says he does recall asking his father a personal ...

Desmond Doss Jr. said for years that producers tried to turn his father’s story into a film, but it never worked out until Director Mel Gibson came along. “I’m glad Mel did it. He did a ...

FISHERSVILLE — Desmond T. Doss Jr. beamed for the cameras Friday afternoon in much the same way his parents did more than 70 years ago in precisely the same spot, ...

Hacksaw Ridge was directed by Mel Gibson and stars Andrew Garfield as combat medic Desmond Doss. ... and father, who is a WWI veteran with PTSD. Throughout the early parts of Desmond's life, ...

It was a Friday morning, Sept. 22, and Desmond Doss Jr. soon would speak with a group of high school students about his father, a World War II U.S. Army medic who saved the lives of 75 soldiers in ...