For most of us, the honest ones, we want to be taken by others as being people of our word. We want people to treat us as having value that is more than skin deep and really dependable. But what makes a person of character is a person who says what they mean and mean what they say.

Because of being wide awake at 11pm last night, I watched a film I have seen before called, “Hacksaw Ride”. The film focuses on the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to carry or use a weapon or firearm of any kind. Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for service above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Okinawa. He saved 75 men who were left for dead because of two major foundations in his life.