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  • America's Story (part 10) - Sergeant York

    11/10/2012 1:18:02 PM PST · by NEWwoman · 13 replies
    smithsk.blogspot.com ^ | November 5, 2012 | smithsk
    Remember World War One? My grandfather had fought in that war and it seemed like a century ago ... and it was. In two years will be the centennial of the start of the First World War (1914 - 1918). At that time, it was called the Great War, the World War, the War to End all Wars. Only after the start of World War Two was it called World War One. (First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One) We see a legacy of the Great War this coming Monday. Signing the Armistice to cease the...
  • France 'York spot' may have been located

    10/27/2006 12:14:15 PM PDT · by Borges · 22 replies · 1,443+ views
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 10/27/06 | JENNY BARCHFIELD
    PARIS - Nineteen .45-caliber cartridges buried in northeastern France may mark the spot where Sgt. Alvin York became America's most celebrated soldier of World War I, a research team said Thursday. The Sergeant York Discovery Expedition said that after four years of work, it found the cartridges buried 2 to 4 inches in soil near the village of Chatel-Chehery where York single-handedly took out a nest of German machine guns. But last March, a group led by academics from York's home state of Tennessee said they were "80 percent sure" they had found the spot where York carried out his...
  • A proud performer after all (Reagan Funeral Insight to Sgt. York - The riderless horse.)

    06/22/2004 9:26:13 AM PDT · by CSM · 52 replies · 1,384+ views
    The Sporting News ^ | June 21, 2004 | Dave Kindred
    The story of the beautiful and haunting riderless horse in Ronald Reagan's funeral procession begins with the truth that a race horse suffering a case of the slows costs just as much in room and board as Secretariat did. The slows can be hazardous to a horse's health because some owners, sentimental as fire hydrants, dump horses faster than J-Lo dumps husbands. As to where they dump them, the words to remember are these from Dave Brandwine: "I didn't want to send him to the glue factory." Yikes. But business is business. Like his horses, Brandwine has to eat, and,...