Posted on 06/20/2006 4:14:32 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Not hardly.
and when newspapers like the New York slimes could be shut down for sedition
NY Slimes doing what it does best: tearing an American hero apart.
how long before someone claims that York was gay?
In Sgt. York's day, gay was something else. He might have been gay, in his day.
How often I wonder what the Saints would say of the sad and sorry state of our fringe culture these days? A time when the Commmander in Chief (Mr. Hillary Clinton) gotta hummer in the Oval Office. They are turning in their graves.
God Bless men like Sgt. York of yesterday and our honorable GIs of today.
All he wanted was a piece of Bottom Land.
Unfortunately he would die a pauper. The movie would bring him fame and fortune and an IRS audit. He would loose his farm, family and fortitude!
My grandmother, Lila May Roark, nee Gilbert, grew up with and went to school with Alvin York and remembered him him very well. I asked her, before her death in 1964, if the facts portrayed in the movie "Sgt. York", were true.
Her reply was that the portrayal his early life prior to the war was based very much in truth and that he was a ruffian and man you did not want to cross prior to his finding God. After his self-conversion and dedication to Christ she said you have never seen a man change so much.
After which she proceeded to show me great uncle Elzie's (Elisha) shirt that he wore when he was killed in Harlan, Kentucky. He was shot three times with a .44 across a card table for cheating. Her words to me were, "Uncle Elzie were a sportin' man, you better stay right in your ways or you'll wind up like him."
I listed to my gandma, stayed fairly right, and bought myself a S&W .44 Special. Hand no problems ever since
My grandmother, Lila May Roark, nee Gilbert, grew up with and went to school with Alvin York and remembered him him very well. I asked her, before her death in 1964, if the facts portrayed in the movie "Sgt. York", were true.
Her reply was that the portrayal his early life prior to the war was based very much in truth and that he was a ruffian and man you did not want to cross prior to his finding God. After his self-conversion and dedication to Christ she said you have never seen a man change so much.
After which she proceeded to show me great uncle Elzie's (Elisha) shirt that he wore when he was killed in Harlan, Kentucky. He was shot three times with a .44 across a card table for cheating. Her words to me were, "Uncle Elzie were a sportin' man, you better stay right in your ways or you'll wind up like him."
I listed to my gandma, stayed fairly right, and bought myself a S&W .44 Special. Hand no problems ever since
Sounds like you have some interesting history in your family...thanks for the info.
One of my customers in Cookeville, TN has a framed flyer advertising the liquidation of Sgt. York's estate on his office wall. IIRC, it mentions hogs, chickens, and other farm type stuff. Nothing of real value, save that it all belonged to a humble American hero.
Read later.
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