of our is free and the home of the brave, and that's what it was. Through the decades that

followed the Army conquered, the Great Frontier, won the war that restored our nation and broke

forever the chains of slavery. A generation later, the Army's rough riders stormed up San Juan

Hill with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and swept the last

foreign empire from the American hemisphere forever, forever swept. In World War I, our doughboys

fought bravely in the Valley of the Marn and in the Argonne.

There in 1918, a devout Tennessee Christian named Alvin York, you know that name,

charged across an open field towards the German machine guns.

They were firing at levels at that time that nobody had ever seen before.

They were knocking down everything in their way, including giant trees were coming down.

The enemy mowed down more than half of his platoon almost immediately the platoon was going down like nobody's ever thought possible.

But York pressed on into the jaws of death.

He slayed German after German and returned with 132 prisoners from behind the enemy lines.

And he had the option of killing them, and he didn't want to do that,

and that's okay, isn't it, right? It's okay. But he brought 132 back, and his actions,

and the actions of that great day, crazy but great day, Sergeant York earned the Congressional Medal of Honor and became one of the most famed and decorated heroes of the First World War.

Very famous, actually, because of the movie that was made.

And we're joined today by Sergeant York's grandson, Army Colonel Gerald York.

Gerald?

Thank you.

Thank you, Gerald.

Thank you very much.

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