On this Day a Tennessee Boy Killed 25 and Captured 132 Enemy

History Channel web page ^ | 10/08/2001 | staff

[the irate magistrate]

This kind of skill is being lost because of the madness of the Left's PC anti-gun movement against the so-called "gun culture" by our government schools.

This was in an era that many all rural farm boys had great marksmen skills, that enabled them to preform these extraordinary feats when required while preforming their military duties.

[the irate magistrate]

Unfortunately it will be hard for our youth to achieve this kind of skill, since they are being told continually about the evils of the "gun".

[SLB]

Now a Christian from Texas is doing the same. Kicking tail!

[Constantine XIII]

Alvin York bump!

[the irate magistrate]

bump

[HEFFERNAN2]

Tennessean Bump from a fellow Tennessean. We Vols know how to shoot. Semper Fi, Mike

[Fred Mertz]

Sergeant York bump! Great story, because it's true.

[Will]

New guy here, What is "bump"? TIA

[Az Joe]

"The Lord sure do work in mysterious ways" Gary Cooper, the last line in the movie-"Sgt. York"

[the irate magistrate]

as in "bang" or "headsup" or "ping" or "gotcha"

Thanks for the "bump" Will!

[harpseal]

It does give one a warm fuzzy feeling to see the USA getting some licks in.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Martin Tell]

There is a great statue of Alvin (in standing firing position) outside the TN capitol. I see it every day on my way to work. I find it very interesting that Alvin's pacifism was overcome and his fellow soliders were saved as a result. The Lord surely does work in mysterious ways. Today I suppose Alvin would be given a "No blood for oil" sign to carry, his talents would be wasted and his friends would die.

[sanchmo]

Sergeant York bump!

[the irate magistrate]

At the turn of the century, rural farm boys had to use their marksmenship skills to supply their mothers' game meat for the supper table, to help her feed the siblings during hard times.

It was not rare that their mothers would also particpate in the hunt at times.

[Iris7]

For much of his battle, York was crouching or kneeling in a small dip. Germans were sliding belt fed, water cooled Maxim machine guns over a low hill crest only a hundred feet away shooting down at York - there were thirty two machine guns shooting at York from less than a hundred feet. The Germans weren't hitting him, so every once in a while a German would lift his head a little, in order to aim his stream of bullets. This would be the Germans's last move. York, as he said, "touched them off".

Picture this: thirty two belt fed water cooled machine guns blazing down at you from thirty steps distant, with an occasional head bobbing up behind one gun or the other, a helmet raised perhaps four inches behind or alongside the gun - and killing them all, and forcing the remainder's surrender.

The German's were so desperate to get rid of York that seven of them charged him with bayonets. York shot them all to death with a M1911 .45 caliber pistol, shooting from the furthest to the nearest so that the Germans would not realize their doom until it was too late for them to stop running at York and instead shoot him.

The German's bullets were so thick that the heavy brush in the area was all shot off to the ground in the area York made his stand. When the ground was examined the next day after the German's retreated a German body was found for every cartridge York had fired. He had not missed once.

It is certain that the Lord was with York that day eighty three years ago, and very satisfying that the Lord will aid a good man with a clear conscience firing a good rifle.

[the irate magistrate]

This would be sadly be true, my friend, in today's atmosphere of political correctness.

Fortunately, Alvin did not have to endure the brain-washing of today's electronic media; and, the big-government school systems' expungement of any sign of male character building.

[the irate magistrate]

Thanks for that addition to the story, Iris

I wonder if the turkey gobbling trick that Gary Cooper portrayed in the movie was also true?

[green team 1999]

great posting,thank you.

[Uglywhiteguy]

He was 31 years old at the time of his war service.... How did they find him back in the woods???

[bluetoad]