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🗓️ 31 August 2024
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On today’s Saturday Matinee, we learn how Sergeant Alvin York's heroism during WWI earned him the Medal of Honor and even a Hollywood film depicting his story. But, just how accurate was that story?
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0:00.0 | There are more ways than ever to listen to History Daily ad free. |
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0:06.0 | As a member of Noiser Plus at Noiser.com or in Apple Podcasts, |
0:10.0 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. Strangely, the Medal of Honor, the United States Armed Forces highest military |
0:29.2 | decoration has been in the news recently. |
0:32.2 | Some political candidate made a quip and elicited a backlash. |
0:35.4 | I'm not going to get into it because for that sort of stuff you read the news, not history. |
0:40.1 | But it does give me an excuse to bring you another Medal of Honor controversy on today's Saturday matinee. |
0:46.0 | An episode from the podcast Medal of Honor, made in partnership with the National Medal of Honor Society. |
0:52.0 | This award is presented to American Soldiers. with the National Medal of Honor Society. |
0:53.0 | This award is presented to American soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, guardians, and coast |
0:58.2 | guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by singular acts of valor. But sometimes it takes a while for the real story to come to light, |
1:06.0 | and that was the case for Sergeant Alvin York, whose bravery and heroism during World War I was mythologized in the 1941 Hollywood film |
1:14.7 | Sergeant York, but is myth the right word? I hope you enjoy. While you're |
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1:23.0 | We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you. |
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1:32.0 | Matt, if we had a bingo card, what would be on there? |
1:34.4 | Oh, compelling storytelling, egotistical white men and dubious humor. |
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1:43.9 | you stories from this green and not always so pleasant land. |
1:47.4 | We've looked at spies, politicians, media magnates, a king, no one is safe. |
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