Tuesday, October 8, 1918: “The most famous American warrior of World War I was a reluctant hero. When drafted, he struggled with the idea of fighting. Thirty-year-old Alvin York, a backwoods Tennessee farmer, had only recently given up his ‘hog wild’ days of drinking and carousing, and had asked his sweetheart to marry him. He had embraced the pacifist …
Today in Johnson City History, Thursday, October 8, 2026
Alvin York and more
