This heroic man named Alvin York went through hellish and insane experiences to get to where he stood in the end. He would not have acted the way he did if certain necessary events did not line up exactly the way they did for him. Alvin York was a resilient man that made life-changing reforms and later went against his morals to execute acts of great heroism with his courageous leadership.
Alvin York was a drinker and a gambler and was part of a gang called the “Blind Tigers”. He and his friends caused a lot of trouble in their town but were awoken from their fantasies pretty abruptly. After hearing about how his buddy died from the horrible lifestyle that Alvin had been accustomed to, he became a devout Christian in about 1915. Two years after that, when the United States entered the First World War, Alvin was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was turned down and not given the status of conscientious objector because the church was not recognized as an official church. He later gave up running away from the draft and enlisted into the army. He soon went to …show more content…
Although they ran into many problems, the small group of soldiers, about 17 men, was attacked by a German machine gunner killing nine of Yorks’ men. He then proceeded to flank the German positions. York humbly recorded all of his actions in his diary that he kept. A few others followed York’s lead and began shooting the German soldiers. Slowly, they got closer to the machine gunners. The German commander, thinking he had underestimated the numbers of York and his men, surrendered his group of about 90 men. On the way back he and his men picked up some more Germans totaling out to about 132 captured Germans. Alvin York always tried to be humble about his actions. He was given credit for killing more than 20 German soldiers and promoted to the rank of