Tag: Sgt. Alvin York

Military November 09, 2018

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Excellent article.
By Richard Sisk: Grandson of Famed Sgt. York: Backwoods Home Prepared Him to Fight
“My grandfather always wanted me to be a doctor,” he said.

In the 1920s, York formed the Alvin C. York Foundation to promote education for unschooled hill country boys such as he had been.

If he were still alive, “I think he would be a great proponent for education. He had a passion for the education of mountain children,” Gerald York said.

In his own time in the military, there was pressure in being the grandson of a legend, he said.

On the rifle range, “they all expected me to make a perfect score,” he said.