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50th anniversary of York’s death to be celebrated Monday
Murfeesboro Post ^
| 9/2/2014
Posted on 09/02/2014 11:58:48 AM PDT by Borges
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posted on
09/02/2014 11:58:48 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Like most of our GIs who fought and won WWI and WWII, he was drafted.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:03:11 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: Borges
The headline needs correcting. Not celebrating his death.....
To: Borges
True hero. Saw the movie starring Gary Cooper. He brought it off just great. The reluctant hero just doing his job.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:09:07 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: Borges
50th anniversary of Yorks death to be celebrated
We don't "celebrate" a death. We may memorialize it and honor it, but it's certainly no cause for celebration.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:09:31 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: minnesota_bound
Agreed. Probably an MTSU grad. Sheesh.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:10:14 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Borges
All forms of bravery,particularly bravery in battle,make a coward like me feel small and unimportant.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:12:14 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
To: SkyDancer
That is a great movie. I watch it every time I see it on TCM.
To: Constitution Day
Hey, CD - you and me both.
I want to go to Pall Mall, TN to see his birthplace. Shockingly, no one else in the family sees it as a worthwhile vacation destination...they're all "let's go on a cruise" and "let's go to Disney". Go figure. :P
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:15:46 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: Borges
awww...it was yesterday. :(
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:16:48 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: Constitution Day
I always wet my sights when I’m gonna do some shootn.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:17:43 PM PDT
by
DirtyPigpen
(Semper Fi)
To: SkyDancer
“York! Where are you going?”
“Well sir, you gave me rank and I intend to use it!”
As Corporal York he led a squad up the hill & outflanked the Germans. Then there was that amazing marksmanship.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:18:59 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: minnesota_bound
“Commemorate[d]” is more appropriate, but the misuse leads people to ‘celebrate’ deaths and wars a lot.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:21:57 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: elcid1970
Now there are tens thousands of Sgt. York’s in America. Both M/F ...
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:24:17 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: ansel12
On December 5, 1942 President Roosevelt, by executive order,
ended voluntary enlistment.
This obviously doesn't apply to SGT York ... but it does put in context the very high ratio of draftees to volunteers in WWII.
To: SkyDancer
I always cry at that movie. It’s very moving in its understatement.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:27:14 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: NorthMountain
No, FDR had to go to a draft because the guys were enlisting and filling the non-ground force jobs, we needed men for the Marines and the Army.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:27:54 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: Argus
I found it poignant - Gary Cooper really brought it to life.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:29:34 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: ansel12
No, "No" ??? What fact in my post, or in the linked LIFE magazine article, do you dispute?
Read the article. Look up the executive order for yourself, if you like. I have done so.
FDR ended voluntary enlistment. That is a fact. You can speculate all you like about the reasons for it ... it's still a more or less free country ... but I'm not addressing that.
To: SkyDancer
I liked when he gave off the “turkey call” and the germans raised up their heads to look.
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posted on
09/02/2014 12:34:38 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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