{"id":2550,"date":"2022-10-04T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/event\/free-movie-showing-hacksaw-ridge\/"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:53:38","slug":"free-movie-showing-hacksaw-ridge","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/event\/free-movie-showing-hacksaw-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Movie Showing: Hacksaw Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Hacksaw Ridge in Blum 218 for free!&nbsp;<span>Hacksaw Ridge&nbsp;<\/span><span>is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss  who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s2-1hz1juBI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s2-1hz1juBI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Chelsey Clark, Director of Military &amp; Veterans Services at cclark26@missouriwestern.edu or (816)271-4111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Hacksaw Ridge in Blum 218 for free!&nbsp;Hacksaw Ridge&nbsp;is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2550\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}