50th anniversary of York’s death to be celebrated Monday

Murfeesboro Post ^ | 9/2/2014

[Rockpile]

I have read that York was the best rifle shot in his battalion and they let him use a Springfield because he did not like the 1917 sights.

That 45 saved his ass along with the surviving members of his squad I reckon. He had it dangling from his lefthand pinky while shooting the rifle.

[Rockpile]

You don’t see much about the Meuse-Argonne battle but it was the largest battle in US Army history. Over a million men with 26,000 killed and 96,000 wounded and missing.

As some of General Pershing’s employees both of my grandfathers and two uncles got to vacation there at that time. I am just glad they were lucky for my selfish sake. :-)

[oh8eleven]

You don’t see much about the Meuse-Argonne battle
You don't see much about WWI as a rule, probably because it was a hundred years ago ... and the battles were so horrific because they were fought with 19th Century tactics and 20th Century weapons.
Besides, "who cares?" - today's younger generations are more interested in Justin Beeper and Kim Karcrashian.

[NorthMountain]

You posted your source, good sir.

You, good sir, bear the responsibility of identifying it.

Your refusal (or inability) to do so reflects badly on you.

Heck, if you have no idea where it came from, just say so. The truth will make you free.

Oh, and say hello to ELIZA for me.

Good-bye.

[ansel12]

There is no mystery to the source, but you sounded so ominous about your speculation that you could guess the source, that your claim became so much more interesting, but you backed off of it and refuse to tell us what you were speculating.

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/view_extract.aspx?ID=1640

http://books.google.com/books?id=btkuYuSDw3sC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22By+February+1943+intake+at+Marine+recruit+depots+had+reduced+to+a+trickle%22&source=bl&ots=iX1Fu0-x4L&sig=4cys1t-a3MvDbYFDtjpjK-GrN9I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GSoHVK_fB8_IgwSP2ILICg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22By%20February%201943%20intake%20at%20Marine%20recruit%20depots%20had%20reduced%20to%20a%20trickle%22&f=true

[NorthMountain]

Wow! You gave an actual substantive reply! Thank you! Looks like an interesting book ... I might even buy it.

Note that your post #32 links only to an upload page at "tinypic dot com", and is therefore useless. Had you provided the "books dot google dot com" link initially, you would have provided useful information.

Now ... your own text, of course, is mostly worthless but this :

but you backed off of it and refuse to tell us what you were speculating.

is a simple falsehood, and appears to be an act of projection on your part.

With that, I have nothing further to add to this thread.

Good day, sir.

[AppyPappy]

“Too bad he was also a Democrat. “

So was Jesse Helms in 1964. All Southerners were Democrats. Lincoln was a Republican

[ansel12]

It sure is interesting to see you become so nasty and angry, and it is a mystery, but you should share what you thought the source was.

What did you think the source of that simple excerpt was?

[Zionist Conspirator]

“Too bad he was also a Democrat. “

So was Jesse Helms in 1964. All Southerners were Democrats. Lincoln was a Republican

All Southerners were not Democrats. My family has been Republican since Lincoln. Furthermore, Tennessee has always had a livelier two-party system than other Southern states and East Tennessee (which I assume York was from) has always been solidly Republican.

[AppyPappy]

The mountain counties were Republican but they were a small part of the legislature. NC was run by Democrats for decades.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The mountain counties were Republican but they were a small part of the legislature. NC was run by Democrats for decades.

York was from those very mountain counties of Tennessee, not NC. Therefore I assume his identification with the Democrat party was a matter of choice.

But as I said, he was a brave soldier. And the Democrats weren't the demonic slime they are today.

[centurion316]

A Republican in the South was rarer than a pink poodle at the rodeo. Everyone was a Democrat, except the Blacks who were Republicans but had a tough time voting with the Democrats in charge. My hometown paper of Bentonville, AR during the pre and post WWI era would publish the Democrat slate just before every election. If there was a Republican slate, it was never put in the paper.