A Reluctant Hero

Army.mil - Sgt. Alvin C. York, (Pall Mall, TN), credited with killing 25 (later attributed with 28) Germans, capturing 132 prisoners, including 4 officers and putting 35 machine gun nests out of commission on 8 October 1918. He arrived on the Ohioan, 22 May 1919, after having been recommended for the DSC and the Congressional Medal. He is said to have entered the Army as a 'Conscientious Objector'. For more information see the following links.

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[TulipXX]

Sgt York was a rare breed. May God Bless him and all of his family. He was a real American.

[kfinnguy]

We need more people like him. Not crazy sociopaths. Peacemakers.

[germanysjim]

@jpeditor oh I see, then the bankers, the movie moguls, the entertainment industrys, the newspaper owners, just looked like jewss?

[jpeditor]

@germanysjim You're an asshole. Jews fought FOR GERMANY in WW1 and then were nothing but scapegoats for Hitler and later for Stalin after the war and now for leftists, commies, nazis and islamists and other turds like you now.

Limpdicks like you blame everything YOU FUCK UP on the "da joos".

Why don't you you crawl back under the rock you came out of. Too bad you weren't there in Germany when my father got there towards the end of the war, he killed enough Nazis, too bad he missed you.

[mgwilliams1000]

Love these posts. You realize that the pacifist and objector end up the greatest Military heroes to their fellow soldiers and themselves... when the cards are down and time for real acton. York, Desmond T Doss, and Audie Murphy who when you saw him thought he could not fight his way out of a wet paper sack. 19 years old when he was awarded his CMH.

[germanysjim]

It was too bad York was lied to about fighting for freedom, Most americans knew nothing about what was going on in Europe and what the jews were trying to do there, Killing the rulers of eastern countries was one thing on their agenda, too bad York did nothing to save their freedoms

[capnhands]

Henry Lincoln Johnson was a brave hero too but nobody knows about him.

[ChurchsofChrist]

☺ Alvin C York is pretty cool!!!

[jpstodwftexas]

I know Hitler was a Simple little Corporal in WWI ....but not a Major Target...SGT YORK would have not have marched on looking for Hitler himself. Unlike Every Soldier in WWII serving in Europe who knew his face and would have loved to have been the One to have Blown his brains out . My reply was about the original poster who implied that SGT York should have specifically continued on to kill Hitler himself. SGT York had no reason to Hunt down the Little Corporal and Kill him in WWI

[btwall60]

@cosmicgorilla113

thanks for the backup.

[btwall60]

@jpstodwftexas

Hitler served as a Corporal in WW ONE, jESUS, don't you guys watch the Military channel? WTF is all your problems. you all seem so SMART but your all a bunch of fucking dummies. eat me.

[btwall60]

Dear person who thinks they know everything, but is just another youBOOB. I am referring to Hitler's heroic service for Germany in the trenches themselves. He was in the War, So, technically, he may have had a shot at Hitler. Hitler won an Iron Cross. He also began to exhibit his uncanny ability to get out of trouble. He was in a trench with about 7 other guys eating, all at once he felt he "had to get out"&quickly ran away, Seconds later the trench was blown to bits, everybody dead. Devils luck