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RELUCTANT SOLDIER, AMERICAN HERO | October 8, 1918
Near Châtel-Chéhéry, France
German machine guns had stopped the American advance in France's Argonne Forest.
Men were falling. Units were becoming separated. And somewhere amid the smoke and confusion, a reluctant soldier from the mountains of Tennessee was about to become one of the most celebrated American heroes of World War I.
His name was Alvin C. York.
York had once struggled with whether his Christian faith would allow him to fight at all. But on this day, with members of his patrol dead or wounded and German machine guns still firing…
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