Originally published at: How history forgot the comrades of America's legendary WWI hero Alvin York | Boing Boing
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An older biography, which examines his entire life, not just the battle.
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I think it was the fact that York had been previously a conscientious objector that made the story more appealing as a “moral”, dubious as it is – that he overcame his “defect” to be a hero. The other soldiers were never objectors, so their story wasn’t as exciting.
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Wait, so Sergeant York was a person? I guess I just assumed that that was a mashup of Samantha Stevens’s two Dicks, Dick Sergeant and Dick York.
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