On this episode of Our American Stories, Alvin York grew up poor in the hills of Tennessee, with little formal education but extraordinary skill with a rifle. After years of drinking and fighting, a religious conversion transformed his life. He became a church elder and a pacifist, and when the United States drafted him during World War I, York struggled deeply with whether his Christian faith allowed him to kill.
Historian Elliott Drago of the Jack Miller Center shares the story of how York resolved that conflict, went to France, and became one of the most celebrated American soldiers of the war after capturing 132 German prisoners during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
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