The Uncommon Courage of Sergeant Alvin York (a special episode for Mary Frigaard)

Real Cool History for Kids

Angela O'Dell

Worldhistory, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Kids, Education, Americanhistory, History

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Episode #127: The Uncommon Courage of Sergeant Alvin York (a special episode for Mary Frigaard)

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0:00.0	This is Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.
0:15.0	A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.
0:21.0	Welcome to an adventure.
0:27.0	Welcome to episode 127 of real cool history for kids.
0:35.0	This episode is for Mary Fregard, who wanted me to tell the story of Sergeant Alvin York. Hi Mary, this one's for you.
0:47.2	Sergeant Alvin York may have gone down in history as the most famous World War I hero in America, but his beginnings were quite humble.
1:00.6	Alvin Colum York was born into a family of farmers near the small town of Paul
1:07.0	Mall Tennessee on December 13th, 1887. He was his parents eldest son and the third eldest of the family's 11 children.
1:18.8	So he had two older than him when he was born. The York family was extremely poor and when
1:26.8	Alvin's father died in 1911 24-year-old Alvin had to work even harder to help provide for his family.
1:35.6	Well as was common for children from poor mountain families at this time,
1:40.2	Alvin had only gone to school for a total of nine months out of his growing up years.
1:47.0	But he was good with a gun. In fact, he became a skilled marksman.
1:54.0	Although Alvin was a really hard worker, the people around Paul Mall thought of him as, well, kind of as a nuisance.
2:01.0	He was quite terrible with money management and was always giving his money away or spending it in wasteful ways.
2:09.0	Alvin's life changed when he found faith in Jesus Christ. In 1914, Alvin attended a church service
2:17.7	at a Church of Christ in Christian Union. That was the name of the denomination. A year later he joined that church and
2:26.4	adopted their strict moral code of conduct. So he stopped partying and drinking and wasting his money on such things.
2:36.0	This church also forbade violence in any form which caused issues for Alvin when he was drafted into the Army in
2:46.9	1917 to fight in World War I because of his new religious beliefs, Alvin didn't want to fight in the war
2:56.0	that had been raging across Europe for three years. He had heard the stories of
3:01.7	the awful fighting and the horrors of the battlefields and
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