CNN.com - Decorated conscientious objector buried with honors - Apr 4, 2006

Medal of Honor Society records show he(Desmond T. Doss Sr.) was among 3,442 recipients of the nation's highest military honor.
While under fire on the island of Okinawa, Doss carried 75 wounded soldiers to the edge of a 400-foot cliff and lowered them to safety, according to his citation.
During a later attack, he was seriously wounded in the legs by a grenade. According to the citation, as he was being carried to safety, he saw a more critically injured man and crawled off his stretcher, directing the medics to help the other man.
'He wanted to serve. He just didn't want to kill anybody,' said a veteran who attended the service, Fred Headrick, 85. 'Most all of [Medal of Honor recipients] received their medal for killing someone. He received his by saving lives.'
-CNN.com