This is kinda cool...

[Andrew Colglazier]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_eu/france_sergeant_york_2

We need to make more of fellas like him.

Andy

 

[severtecher]

There are lots of guys like Alvin York. The real American spirit.
Here is some great inspirational reading.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm

 

[Sutcliffe]

and needing to do some real soul searching before he felt comfortable with putting his skills to use against his fellow man.

In the move with Gary Cooper he used a luger to help clean up the german position. I've heard it is because the design of the 1911 didn't permit the use of blanks. Anybody able to verify this?

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

There are lots of guys like Alvin York. The real American spirit.
Here is some great inspirational reading.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm

Indeed! What I meant was, we need to hear more about them in the media and the press.

Andy

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

and needing to do some real soul searching before he felt comfortable with putting his skills to use against his fellow man.

In the move with Gary Cooper he used a luger to help clean up the german position. I've heard it is because the design of the 1911 didn't permit the use of blanks. Anybody able to verify this?

I guess that's true... who knows what Hollywood did to the real story, but certainly he was depicted as a fellow who had been taught to turn the other cheek.

I saw the movie, but cannot remember whether Luger or 1911.

Andy