Alvin C. York Quotes

You know we were in the Argonne Forest twenty-eight days, and had some mighty hard fighting in there. A lot of our boys were killed off. Every company has to have so many sergeants. They needed a sergeant; and they jes' took me.

Alvin C. York

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  Alvin C. York
  • Fighting
  • Forest
  • Sergeant