The sweat Jerry Lee Lewis was not the only early rock-and-roller from a strict Christian background who struggled to reconcile his religious beliefs with the moral implications of the music he created. He may have been the only one to have one of his religious crises caught on tape, A Bolivian guerrilla force led by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is defeated in a skirmish with a special detachment of the Bolivian army.
Guevara was wounded, captured and executed the next day. Born in Argentina, Guevara believed that a man of action could revolutionize a Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. He proposed The most devastating fire in United States history burns in Wisconsin on October 8, Some 1, people lost their lives and 2 billion trees were consumed by flames.
Despite the massive scale of the blaze, it was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which began later that Born in in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn was a leading writer and critic of Soviet internal oppression. Arrested in for criticizing the Stalin regime, he Live TV. This Day In History. After his turn to faith, Alvin quit drinking and as a result — fighting. When York was drafted in to serve in World War I, he attempted to claim conscientious objector status, as his denomination, the Church of Christ in Christian Union, forbade violence.
However, as this particular Christian sect was not officially recognized by the U. After basic training, Pvt. Army Infantry Division. There he was an oddity: an incredible sharpshooter who detested the concept of war. On Oct. This action was to take place at the start of the second phase of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
This offensive would become the most decisive allied on the Western Front — lasting until the November Armistice. On the way, York and the men found themselves flanking a much larger enemy force, which surrendered in confusion.
However, once the German soldiers realized the small size of the unit, two machine gun nests opened fire prompting York to assault the machine gun positions on his own. When approaching the nests, six German soldiers charged York, who slew each one with his pistol and forced both machine gun nests to surrender.
For this effort, he was promoted in the field from corporal to sergeant and was awarded the Distinguished Cross, which was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor and awarded to him by Gen. John J. Pershing, commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war, York chose not to capitalize on his fame and resisted efforts to profit off of his newfound fame, instead preferring to return to his quiet life in rural Tennessee where he would go on to raise a family of eight children with his wife Gracie.
The film became a box office success and received two academy awards. York's great-niece, Janet Patton, who runs an old country store bearing York's name, also wonders what the state of education would have been without his success. He received a Medal of Honor for his actions in France. There was a ticker tape parade for him in New York. A movie starring Gary Cooper came out in , which won two Oscars.
Just this year, the U. The shop owner said he wouldn't take it until he looked at it and saw the signature, instantly knowing who it belonged to. The story his grandfather was so known for wasn't something York learned until fifth grade, when his teacher asked him to read the encyclopedia passage on his grandfather to his classmates. York followed in his grandfather's footsteps, serving 31 years in the military, which began at the urging of those who knew his grandfather's name.
Now retired, York has become the face of the family, and the living legacy of his grandfather. He travels, maintains the family farm and helps run the Sgt. York Patriotic Foundation. Another hundred years from now, it's hard to say what the legacy will be. But many hope York Institute will remain part of it. Facebook Twitter Email. Why the legacy of Tennessee's greatest war hero may not be the Medal of Honor.
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