October 12, 1945 – The Medal of Honor is Awarded to a Conscientious Objector for the first time. Desmond Doss!
This morning as I looked over the list of events that happened on this date in history, I came to 1945 and on October 12 of that year, the Medal 
of Honor was issued to a conscientious objector for the first time. The recipient was Private First Class Desmond Doss. In total only three such Medals of Honor have been awarded. The other two went to Thomas W. Bennett and Joseph G. LaPointe, Jr. Doss was a Corporal (Private First Class at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army assigned to the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division.
