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Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:36 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Oh, I know that, I thought you were saying that Chesty was also from Tennessee.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:37 pm to auggie
No no, sorry for the confusion.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 9:39 pm to Kamikaze25
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They don't make guys like this anymore
Actually they do. The same way they "made" this one.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:18 pm to Alahunter
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Either a boring M1911...
Hell's filled with souls that were bored to death.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:20 pm to five_fivesix
Posted on 10/8/15 at 10:26 pm to Pavoloco83
the modern remake would have Denzel playing Alvin York.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 11:33 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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Actually they do. The same way they "made" this one.
lol you got it all figured out, bro.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 1:47 am to Alahunter
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WWII’s answer to SG York was a man only 5 feet 5 inches tall, and 150 pounds. He earned every major combat award the U. S. has to offer, fighting in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Rome, and France. He got the DSC in Normandy, when a German called down from a hilltop that he was surrendering. One of Murphy’s buddies took the bait and stood up, right into a sniper’s bullet. This infuriated Murphy, who jumped up and shot the sniper dead, then charged up the hill and wiped out a machine gun nest of 6 men, firing and throwing grenades at them. Then he picked up the MG-42 and charged over the hillside spraying it from the hip, killing 10 more men.When asked how it felt to have the DSC, he said, “I got the DSC. All he got was dead.” It was on 26 January 1945, in Holtzwihr, France, almost on the German border, that he earned the Medal of Honor for ordering his men to retreat as the German assault on the town began. His unit had only 19 fighting men left out of 128. He stayed behind and shot the Germans as they emerged from the woods to cross a clearing, until he was out of ammunition. He then climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and used the .50 caliber machine gun to push them back. The Panzers and mortars started blowing up the ground all around him, but he continued this one-man assault for an hour, until he started calling in artillery strikes over the tank destroyer’s phone.He called these strikes in closer and closer to his position, blowing up Germans and tanks less than 50 yards from him. He finally called a strike on his position, prompting the man on the other end to say, “That’s right on top of you! How close are they!?”“Hold the phone! I’ll let you talk to them!” he shouted and jumped from the vehicle, and ran into the woods as they overran his position and were struck down again by American cannon fire. As the Germans were in disarray, he called his men out and organized a counter-attack, driving the German’s back. His men estimated that he had killed 50 men.
Just another BAMF here. Google some of the MOH recipients and read in MF awe.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 3:54 pm to Alahunter
He would be labeled a religious zealot, gun nut that should be locked up if he were alive today.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 7:10 pm to Alahunter
Lots of folks saying They don't make 'em like him any more. Truth is America could keep on turning this type out if we could just get over being scared of ourselves.
American History 1945-Present... is the story of a people being scared of how powerful they could be.
This story starts with Hiroshima and has thus far been marked with shame. ...With the shame for how bad arse we can be.
If we could ever get over our fear of ourselves then we could turn out Sgt. York's, again, by the hundred. If we don't then Guatemala and Costa Rica will "rescue" our "enlightened" asses with some raping and subjugation to remind us of Satan's origin within the minds of our "it's hard to mow my lawn" stone age ancestors.
But never mind this. The RIGHT thing to do is to pretend that 7 billion human frickers are all skinny white upper middle class American college graduates and ergo NOW is inherently different from ALWAYS.
U'all know what I'm sayin?
Nope. Probably not.
American History 1945-Present... is the story of a people being scared of how powerful they could be.
This story starts with Hiroshima and has thus far been marked with shame. ...With the shame for how bad arse we can be.
If we could ever get over our fear of ourselves then we could turn out Sgt. York's, again, by the hundred. If we don't then Guatemala and Costa Rica will "rescue" our "enlightened" asses with some raping and subjugation to remind us of Satan's origin within the minds of our "it's hard to mow my lawn" stone age ancestors.
But never mind this. The RIGHT thing to do is to pretend that 7 billion human frickers are all skinny white upper middle class American college graduates and ergo NOW is inherently different from ALWAYS.
U'all know what I'm sayin?
Nope. Probably not.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 7:55 am to derSturm37
Posted on 10/10/15 at 10:15 am to Alahunter
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Would love to see a new remake of it and keep to as true as possible.
Please don't give Hollywood any ideas.
This era, the movie would be butchered and Angelina Jolie would be York.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 10:56 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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Angelina Jolie
Posted on 10/10/15 at 11:09 am to TbirdSpur2010
Truest of American heroes.
Definitely one of mine my whole life.
I shall be making a pilgrimage those fall to his home place.
Definitely one of mine my whole life.
I shall be making a pilgrimage those fall to his home place.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 11:38 am to BlackPawnMartyr
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They don't make guys like this anymore
Actually they do. The same way they "made" this one
Cynicism isn't bad, but some take it too far.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 12:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Agreed and I too am a shrubber. A bit lesser known shrubber though...also a less popular shrubber...and slightly less endowed...a bit dimwitted perhaps.
Ahhh shite!
Ahhh shite!
Posted on 10/10/15 at 12:52 pm to footswitch
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I shall be making a pilgrimage those fall to his home place.
I would recommend checking out the Obed River while you're in the area. My dad's side settled in the area and I go back once a year for the reunion. The plateau/Upper Cumberland is an underrated area.
Posted on 10/11/15 at 10:20 am to Robert Goulet
Played on a couple of different baseball teams with his son. Both were great people.
May they both rest in peace
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May they both rest in peace
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This post was edited on 10/11/15 at 10:21 am
Posted on 10/11/15 at 12:06 pm to Alahunter
I wish they'd remake Sgt York and Hell is for Heroes
Two great movies about two great soldiers back when we actually fought for something.
Two great movies about two great soldiers back when we actually fought for something.
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