This one-time conscientious objector recorded 25 confirmed kills in a single day

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This one-time conscientious objector recorded 25 confirmed kills in a single day
By: J.D. Simkins  

Over 100 years after the conclusion of World War I, Alvin York’s heroics remain difficult to fathom.

“Sergeant York,” the one-time conscientious objector from Tennessee who never advanced beyond the third grade, would transform from an anonymous corporal to a national hero following his actions in the Argonne Forest on the morning of October 8, 1918.

But his path to becoming a military icon almost never materialized.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/09/28/this-one-time-conscientious-objector-recorded-25-confirmed-kills-in-a-single-day/