Transcripts For CSPAN2 Douglas Mastriano On Alvin York 20240

Speak, a cloud comes over the sunlit arch, the wind comes off the frozen peak in the middle of march. So there we are. April on the calendar, march outside and in december in my heart. Colonel mastriano was commissioned 1986 and currently teaches military strategy at the Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm that led the main attack against the Republican Guard as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day in 1918 when sgt alvin york captured 132 prisoners and won the medal of honor. And as an afterword as a nonvoting member i dont think i ever heard such unanimity in praise to name the book the top choice. It seems a particularly fitting prizes for the 20th anniversary. Colonel mastriano. [applause] thanks for that stirring introduction and also for braving the spring weather to come out here to be a part of this. We will have that one dime time for questions at the and. How many of you have seen the movie . Alright. We will bring you back. First off, why so much effort to study your candor why does it matter today . But it does matter but especially the young people out there. As growing up so the you heard this and the york story really bothered me a man who doesnt want to be in the army or be a hero. If you juxtapose that against john wayne who will be the hero so why . Was is wrong with them . So if anybody knows anything about the First World War and large part but with the sacrifice and the cost and a little do we know we still are living with that legacy of today. There were created in the aftermath of the First World War. The modern voters now with the flash points in the future now as you heard of a great unity and while the change the iron curtain came down to demobilize to set people up pretty quick. Then a little place far away that Saddam Hussein invaded with his army and the world changed again and it is an amazing place and the heart of man has not changed read the to be ever vigilant but a lack of preparedness of the United States who bitterly was on the sidelines with every indication of conflict to prepare in the cost would have been delighted to talk about the 1918, the war is for years on. The second for us but a good guy with the europeans did didnt work quite so well and he warned them of such tactics read innovation the leaders had no idea how to do more and the best way is a headlong attacks. That is the price you pay for a lack of prepared this and that is why it is so relevant to us across the nation. But he does personify in my view and also with the army army, a warriors itos. Key is the centerpiece with a soldier needs to be like. A compelling story back in 1974 to start diving deeper it was fascinating when i found. But down the road of course, something in fashion in the United States i was giving a lecture to the other officers youre talking about General Macarthur was the great leader and hero. And right away they started to talk read his shortcomings and his ego. I was shocked. Why focus on the negatives . Finally he liberated them from japan to said why are your fascination on heroes . But everybody has flaws. This is the case of alvin york i was reading reports from people even from his home state questioning if he truly was a hero or just propaganda to you justify the lawsuit. It is just opinion. Not a fact. Then the man made controversy of this is that to to you with the battle happened to sort this out to find out if theyre really happened or not. So that was my initial research. So lets talk about york first euphoria going to the methodology. Board 87, the third of 11 children and in the hills of tennessee are still pretty remote from the kentucky border. You have questions but his dad was kicked by a mule and his dad died from complications and now he is in charge of the family. He has two older brothers bottega are married with their own farm so he is responsible. He could pretty scratch a moving off of but i will deal with this fridays, saturdays, sundays fridays, saturdays, sundays, plus a few miles up the road. We would occur to the old drinking establishments. It is about as wide as this room and there is no white light going down the middle to show the state border this view is a on one side so of though police when show up the you could grab your alcohol go to the other side. [laughter] this is not the case they are tough places for the you were there to duces women and night fights and occasionally a shootout. People would die. To make matters worse the booze is not regulated so it had toxins or stuff that could make you blind or hurt you the rest of your life. Of course, he was blowing off steam to get drunk with his favorite game last man standing. Whoever keeps drinking the last guy sober and the wake gets the rest of the abuse. It was a bad time for york. Obviously his family and Church Friends were concerned about him. But they broke up from my perishing in price and pay went downhill. But he would be in trouble for shooting somebody elses turkeys. He was a great hunter and he learned early from his dad but it was needed to put meat on the table and to sell the pelts to feed the family and sustain the farm. His life was out of control then they to there was no grey but he is out of control and he is bad and doesnt have the same attitude. The only way to see it is to go to church. So on new years day with a Revival Service guess where he was . He was at church to see greasy not necessarily the preacher. He was from indiana something he said it koch easier if he said it was like lightning struck my heart. He heard the message then went forward and excepted cheeses and became a christian. While. So he went forward and his life started to change. On the following friday after that service after he came around to see if he wanted to go to the of the border to kickoff sums hes some steam he really wanted to go but he said i made a decision i have turned my back on that. Then the next weekend came around but he noticed the cheyenne that he resisted then it easier it became to say no. Is an important part of the holy york story. One year of 1950 was contingent upon his life to return because it made him a hero. Every time he says no to a temptation he felt his character. I will talk about that. But he is teaching kids that choir and that is from a standing citizen to launder shooting the neighbors and now he helps the neighbor kids under of depravity to contribute to a society but 1917, alvin york life is upside down. Put the problem he has come i cannot kill for any reason at all. The guys barely had a second grade education but i cannot serve in the army because i cannot kill. Period. The board said no purpose and they appealed to the state board. And they declined it as well that the federal level as well that you have to serve. He belonged to to a small pentecostal domination and said if you will leave that he can fly, you are are in your own. You have to go. But lets talk from his character. Tells us how we can make the difference there predetermine the person you will be in that day of trial whether combat or crisis at home. This is where commander of the 20th main degeneres then history change because it would that be the United States with the intervening french army with the collapse of russia. Maybe the allied could pull off . I doubt it. What about 1950 . We could go on and on for poor Joshua Chamberlain from the civil war say it is for the purchase of fins to make good man better and bad and worse. The by the small decisions you make every day. Isnt that amazing . So you can take control of your destiny that way. Now to jump into the First World War. The first situation here is that york is in the army. While that camp borden he made the but i remember back in maya vase the your using him to do train all the others. They want to prod him to a corporal. He said i cannot do that. I want out and the commanders said what . What is wrong with you . You are a model soldier. And major buxton in there were also closed which is there eight famous for new york. But lets talk about this and they invited him to the Commanders Office for cartelists why you cannot fight as a christian. They would respond in a nice way can the major is very clear about this that were talking as christians but not as officers or soldiers. He had a great impression of this, if the europeans would take the time patiently, a few evenings and finally but if you do not warrant your enemy their blood is on europeans. Some will have died for your country. He could be a benefit because but to go to the noncombat unit it is his dilemma. Here we are this the biggest america but they would be anything you can think of as a massive understanding as a broad attack to be led and organized of the the at the user offensive beacons october and is set the bottom since the 1940 nuclear striking north toward the of vital bill rhodes of it section and then to read the southern part of the army the army in france is a great plan. 20,000 american and casualtys per week. The germans are not ready to quit. So what is going on in the Oregon Forest . That is roughly the argonne in that box. Here is the Argonne Forest in the news server is over here to the right. The situation here early october 1818 is 590 americans trapped right here. There was the franco american attack than those guys were trapped behind though line every effort other hat dropped in has fallen into german hands and every attempt to break down to go to america as siberia has dropped them. That to be there to be up the valley but to the though one that the german has. It is so wide small drug that the network is attached to is the river cut off. So the americans take the set aside the village than the next day york recital will exploit and relieve the al lost in cheyenne. But i am because but the employees ted to. Go care. I will talk through this. At 6 00 in the morning but the utility man never got the message. Dealing most of the runners and a bouquet what do we do . We will go over the top but the from the attack into the valley of these that with this battalion to be wiped out. But the plan is dead Double Development counterattack that they will push through here and remove the surviving americans. So while the americans are trapped in the valley, 16 plus york all together managed to fight this season and a breakthrough. They wander back behind the german lines for one hour at the end of that hour but to follow them back straight back to Battalion Headquarters but right your decorated for the counter attacked, their spirit was not broken. Maybe it is the 190 bubbles that were trapped. We dont know. Sole 17 americans and 70 germans who tried to push them into a manageable group and as they showed these humans were being deliberately they are brilliant americans dont know what rubio remains but all the germans in the meadow that herded drove to the ground with open fire to kill six and injured three leaving york the last. But if you do she is in command. Think about this is a Conscientious Objector. How well liked to think he was generally speaking . Not very. Though one true friend he headed the army was a christian and he was willing to fight for his country. Those just 15 or 20 feet away and across the meadow floor then to follow those dead and dying americans who said to himself i have to stop this. The clarity of thought violence say cable from that but to be busy with the prisoners and not try to get hit with the bullet for your fran is up the hill tried to outflank kills 19. The germans are lucky in that hemp and based on that testimony. At one point of a the western front with two years of fighting back and forth so 46 rounds killed 19 germans the a german commander of the machine guns said to maintain fire and he would care reimbursements from higher at. Cheney is to get back to his men anyways and he runs down the hill toward the meadow and he runs into the Straight Line trench with the border between the Argonne Forest in the village land. The german officer was in gauging for word and for some reason he happen to notice york was behind him and he sees america right behind him to all guides that followed me. That the commander runs the wrong way. He is running away from the fight. [laughter] so they followed him not knowing for girl in new york realizes we are chased by german so he stops to say which is one who was screaming in pain . His best friend. He was in the back but they needed help. Now there is a moral dilemma for the tank commander capture for a few minutes his best friend is screaming for help they have been best friends almost a decade. Think about the friendship. So he has his luger by his side and did said that on a binge but to get the free lyonnesse the phrases of the day. Make them stop shooting and i will surrender. So he pulls no whistle that looks like this and blows it and the german commander on the hill above is back a platoon of turbines. He knows what is going on he has been together for two years, 1914 and as they served in the 125th regiment. They were friends and a trusted each other. He had to take the yard back because of that order upload from a whistle like this now your has 100 prisoners for roughly. The roads will take half a mile. Talk about that was all. 6 feet away from the flat armand cartridges. I believe it was when and to make it close and personal but the key players in the story during Archival Research with the german dog tag with his name on a. Lets get into it. As i have maya approach is on a archive is a very gascony a stew researcher john to take that initial view of american researchers and almost to the level of this side of the atlantics. You have to reduce the bizarre archives it is cost prohibitive. But if you want to get the story right do with that way. So i began my research with the german archives and they prove to be extremely beneficial. But while doing that research to look at the terrain i went to the map the battlefield to see but was written made sense why would i put a machine gun here . Why is that type of order so the neck step is the doctrine and did it make sense from the Archival Research . And then to add science but archaeological digs but they say there was a us paul broca and an evidence . And finally what about the analysis . Shipping off to those who have no interest says yes or no. Sova multi disciplined approach plus archaeology plus for the six equal a high degree of accuracy. This delineates the archives that were visited to garner the information to dig deep into the york story. In the end it was 1,000 out hours in the archives and 1,000 on the ground then looking for the artifacts specifically. Some of the vital components is the people of the maps are photographed. They are there waiting to be found. You can see in the upper left that this was put together in 1929 after the americans got wind of the york story and found out that they wouldnt surrender to this gentleman . And all survivors were interviewed and x marks the spot. That is pretty clear but the lower left to delineate the a defensive plan that happened on the regiment. Then he moved the infantry brooks through that area. Then the photograph that is near the spot northwest and these all intersect with each other with a 100 meters square area that is refocused and sure enough flattery hit the ground exactly where york should have been 46 rounds were recover there you can see how they would look in the ground when read would dig them up. And i have all 46 operate here. Not because that microscopic technology be matched up with the solid signature with those dejection marks. What about the machinegun . This is what i found the first day. [laughter] but it is fantastic my son was five at the time they found the position of the machine gun and i went to a separate directions hittle hole in the ground and twisted her ankle then they is a cross and he breaks her fall. , he goes to go get a stack. Then there hobble down the hill and sure enough months later it was just lying to inches under the ground. These are some of the 500 machine gun rounds. But coming at a rifle but just because you did not find a stripper clips there. I agree. That is going to fall. Adding to the problem that the time is that these would rot after 90 years so thankfully he found those that was used for the bullets. They are very fragile but ive gotta pitcher. Indeed a to renew leases. But there is so much talk about tonight one time for questions but i am often asked for the complete effect his machine gunner. This is interpreted here story. I never diberville is when jerry but most intriguing talking right here is fighting that is depicted in the movie and with his whistle resend these artifacts off for public debt this. These artifacts represent to colts one having fired 15 rounds and another firing nine. Interesting. Somebody else was shooting also. If you look at the pattern each represents where the cartridge is pull the. And were those that were interviewed several times and from upstate new york said i also supported mine. Carrying a french machinegun he tried to fire the machinegun and it was not going. In new york had a good health that day. Help that day. Maybe we to get have recognized but the there is something new is contributing to it. It was just moments before. It is disturbing. In that picture you can see other effects such as these items here. Harmonic the pieces. Almost every private soldier had a harmonica it was a popular instrument so having been endorsed to have the Research Methodology scrutinized and analyzed we had the permission to build a trail to walk where your clocked so it was not lost to history. So we put out nine historic markers you pick up language mitt is five connors complete from the Army War College<\/a> in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm<\/a> that led the main attack against the Republican Guard<\/a> as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security<\/a> assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day in 1918 when sgt alvin york captured 132 prisoners and won the medal of honor. And as an afterword as a nonvoting member i dont think i ever heard such unanimity in praise to name the book the top choice. It seems a particularly fitting prizes for the 20th anniversary. Colonel mastriano. [applause] thanks for that stirring introduction and also for braving the spring weather to come out here to be a part of this. We will have that one dime time for questions at the and. How many of you have seen the movie . Alright. We will bring you back. First off, why so much effort to study your candor why does it matter today . But it does matter but especially the young people out there. As growing up so the you heard this and the york story really bothered me a man who doesnt want to be in the army or be a hero. If you juxtapose that against john wayne who will be the hero so why . Was is wrong with them . So if anybody knows anything about the First World War<\/a> and large part but with the sacrifice and the cost and a little do we know we still are living with that legacy of today. There were created in the aftermath of the First World War<\/a>. The modern voters now with the flash points in the future now as you heard of a great unity and while the change the iron curtain came down to demobilize to set people up pretty quick. Then a little place far away that Saddam Hussein<\/a> invaded with his army and the world changed again and it is an amazing place and the heart of man has not changed read the to be ever vigilant but a lack of preparedness of the United States<\/a> who bitterly was on the sidelines with every indication of conflict to prepare in the cost would have been delighted to talk about the 1918, the war is for years on. The second for us but a good guy with the europeans did didnt work quite so well and he warned them of such tactics read innovation the leaders had no idea how to do more and the best way is a headlong attacks. That is the price you pay for a lack of prepared this and that is why it is so relevant to us across the nation. But he does personify in my view and also with the army army, a warriors itos. Key is the centerpiece with a soldier needs to be like. A compelling story back in 1974 to start diving deeper it was fascinating when i found. But down the road of course, something in fashion in the United States<\/a> i was giving a lecture to the other officers youre talking about General Macarthur<\/a> was the great leader and hero. And right away they started to talk read his shortcomings and his ego. I was shocked. Why focus on the negatives . Finally he liberated them from japan to said why are your fascination on heroes . But everybody has flaws. This is the case of alvin york i was reading reports from people even from his home state questioning if he truly was a hero or just propaganda to you justify the lawsuit. It is just opinion. Not a fact. Then the man made controversy of this is that to to you with the battle happened to sort this out to find out if theyre really happened or not. So that was my initial research. So lets talk about york first euphoria going to the methodology. Board 87, the third of 11 children and in the hills of tennessee are still pretty remote from the kentucky border. You have questions but his dad was kicked by a mule and his dad died from complications and now he is in charge of the family. He has two older brothers bottega are married with their own farm so he is responsible. He could pretty scratch a moving off of but i will deal with this fridays, saturdays, sundays fridays, saturdays, sundays, plus a few miles up the road. We would occur to the old drinking establishments. It is about as wide as this room and there is no white light going down the middle to show the state border this view is a on one side so of though police when show up the you could grab your alcohol go to the other side. [laughter] this is not the case they are tough places for the you were there to duces women and night fights and occasionally a shootout. People would die. To make matters worse the booze is not regulated so it had toxins or stuff that could make you blind or hurt you the rest of your life. Of course, he was blowing off steam to get drunk with his favorite game last man standing. Whoever keeps drinking the last guy sober and the wake gets the rest of the abuse. It was a bad time for york. Obviously his family and Church Friends<\/a> were concerned about him. But they broke up from my perishing in price and pay went downhill. But he would be in trouble for shooting somebody elses turkeys. He was a great hunter and he learned early from his dad but it was needed to put meat on the table and to sell the pelts to feed the family and sustain the farm. His life was out of control then they to there was no grey but he is out of control and he is bad and doesnt have the same attitude. The only way to see it is to go to church. So on new years day with a Revival Service<\/a> guess where he was . He was at church to see greasy not necessarily the preacher. He was from indiana something he said it koch easier if he said it was like lightning struck my heart. He heard the message then went forward and excepted cheeses and became a christian. While. So he went forward and his life started to change. On the following friday after that service after he came around to see if he wanted to go to the of the border to kickoff sums hes some steam he really wanted to go but he said i made a decision i have turned my back on that. Then the next weekend came around but he noticed the cheyenne that he resisted then it easier it became to say no. Is an important part of the holy york story. One year of 1950 was contingent upon his life to return because it made him a hero. Every time he says no to a temptation he felt his character. I will talk about that. But he is teaching kids that choir and that is from a standing citizen to launder shooting the neighbors and now he helps the neighbor kids under of depravity to contribute to a society but 1917, alvin york life is upside down. Put the problem he has come i cannot kill for any reason at all. The guys barely had a second grade education but i cannot serve in the army because i cannot kill. Period. The board said no purpose and they appealed to the state board. And they declined it as well that the federal level as well that you have to serve. He belonged to to a small pentecostal domination and said if you will leave that he can fly, you are are in your own. You have to go. But lets talk from his character. Tells us how we can make the difference there predetermine the person you will be in that day of trial whether combat or crisis at home. This is where commander of the 20th main degeneres then history change because it would that be the United States<\/a> with the intervening french army with the collapse of russia. Maybe the allied could pull off . I doubt it. What about 1950 . We could go on and on for poor Joshua Chamberlain<\/a> from the civil war say it is for the purchase of fins to make good man better and bad and worse. The by the small decisions you make every day. Isnt that amazing . So you can take control of your destiny that way. Now to jump into the First World War<\/a>. The first situation here is that york is in the army. While that camp borden he made the but i remember back in maya vase the your using him to do train all the others. They want to prod him to a corporal. He said i cannot do that. I want out and the commanders said what . What is wrong with you . You are a model soldier. And major buxton in there were also closed which is there eight famous for new york. But lets talk about this and they invited him to the Commanders Office<\/a> for cartelists why you cannot fight as a christian. They would respond in a nice way can the major is very clear about this that were talking as christians but not as officers or soldiers. He had a great impression of this, if the europeans would take the time patiently, a few evenings and finally but if you do not warrant your enemy their blood is on europeans. Some will have died for your country. He could be a benefit because but to go to the noncombat unit it is his dilemma. Here we are this the biggest america but they would be anything you can think of as a massive understanding as a broad attack to be led and organized of the the at the user offensive beacons october and is set the bottom since the 1940 nuclear striking north toward the of vital bill rhodes of it section and then to read the southern part of the army the army in france is a great plan. 20,000 american and casualtys per week. The germans are not ready to quit. So what is going on in the Oregon Forest<\/a> . That is roughly the argonne in that box. Here is the Argonne Forest<\/a> in the news server is over here to the right. The situation here early october 1818 is 590 americans trapped right here. There was the franco american attack than those guys were trapped behind though line every effort other hat dropped in has fallen into german hands and every attempt to break down to go to america as siberia has dropped them. That to be there to be up the valley but to the though one that the german has. It is so wide small drug that the network is attached to is the river cut off. So the americans take the set aside the village than the next day york recital will exploit and relieve the al lost in cheyenne. But i am because but the employees ted to. Go care. I will talk through this. At 6 00 in the morning but the utility man never got the message. Dealing most of the runners and a bouquet what do we do . We will go over the top but the from the attack into the valley of these that with this battalion to be wiped out. But the plan is dead Double Development<\/a> counterattack that they will push through here and remove the surviving americans. So while the americans are trapped in the valley, 16 plus york all together managed to fight this season and a breakthrough. They wander back behind the german lines for one hour at the end of that hour but to follow them back straight back to Battalion Headquarters<\/a> but right your decorated for the counter attacked, their spirit was not broken. Maybe it is the 190 bubbles that were trapped. We dont know. Sole 17 americans and 70 germans who tried to push them into a manageable group and as they showed these humans were being deliberately they are brilliant americans dont know what rubio remains but all the germans in the meadow that herded drove to the ground with open fire to kill six and injured three leaving york the last. But if you do she is in command. Think about this is a Conscientious Objector<\/a>. How well liked to think he was generally speaking . Not very. Though one true friend he headed the army was a christian and he was willing to fight for his country. Those just 15 or 20 feet away and across the meadow floor then to follow those dead and dying americans who said to himself i have to stop this. The clarity of thought violence say cable from that but to be busy with the prisoners and not try to get hit with the bullet for your fran is up the hill tried to outflank kills 19. The germans are lucky in that hemp and based on that testimony. At one point of a the western front with two years of fighting back and forth so 46 rounds killed 19 germans the a german commander of the machine guns said to maintain fire and he would care reimbursements from higher at. Cheney is to get back to his men anyways and he runs down the hill toward the meadow and he runs into the Straight Line<\/a> trench with the border between the Argonne Forest<\/a> in the village land. The german officer was in gauging for word and for some reason he happen to notice york was behind him and he sees america right behind him to all guides that followed me. That the commander runs the wrong way. He is running away from the fight. [laughter] so they followed him not knowing for girl in new york realizes we are chased by german so he stops to say which is one who was screaming in pain . His best friend. He was in the back but they needed help. Now there is a moral dilemma for the tank commander capture for a few minutes his best friend is screaming for help they have been best friends almost a decade. Think about the friendship. So he has his luger by his side and did said that on a binge but to get the free lyonnesse the phrases of the day. Make them stop shooting and i will surrender. So he pulls no whistle that looks like this and blows it and the german commander on the hill above is back a platoon of turbines. He knows what is going on he has been together for two years, 1914 and as they served in the 125th regiment. They were friends and a trusted each other. He had to take the yard back because of that order upload from a whistle like this now your has 100 prisoners for roughly. The roads will take half a mile. Talk about that was all. 6 feet away from the flat armand cartridges. I believe it was when and to make it close and personal but the key players in the story during Archival Research<\/a> with the german dog tag with his name on a. Lets get into it. As i have maya approach is on a archive is a very gascony a stew researcher john to take that initial view of american researchers and almost to the level of this side of the atlantics. You have to reduce the bizarre archives it is cost prohibitive. But if you want to get the story right do with that way. So i began my research with the german archives and they prove to be extremely beneficial. But while doing that research to look at the terrain i went to the map the battlefield to see but was written made sense why would i put a machine gun here . Why is that type of order so the neck step is the doctrine and did it make sense from the Archival Research<\/a> . And then to add science but archaeological digs but they say there was a us paul broca and an evidence . And finally what about the analysis . Shipping off to those who have no interest says yes or no. Sova multi disciplined approach plus archaeology plus for the six equal a high degree of accuracy. This delineates the archives that were visited to garner the information to dig deep into the york story. In the end it was 1,000 out hours in the archives and 1,000 on the ground then looking for the artifacts specifically. Some of the vital components is the people of the maps are photographed. They are there waiting to be found. You can see in the upper left that this was put together in 1929 after the americans got wind of the york story and found out that they wouldnt surrender to this gentleman . And all survivors were interviewed and x marks the spot. That is pretty clear but the lower left to delineate the a defensive plan that happened on the regiment. Then he moved the infantry brooks through that area. Then the photograph that is near the spot northwest and these all intersect with each other with a 100 meters square area that is refocused and sure enough flattery hit the ground exactly where york should have been 46 rounds were recover there you can see how they would look in the ground when read would dig them up. And i have all 46 operate here. Not because that microscopic technology be matched up with the solid signature with those dejection marks. What about the machinegun . This is what i found the first day. [laughter] but it is fantastic my son was five at the time they found the position of the machine gun and i went to a separate directions hittle hole in the ground and twisted her ankle then they is a cross and he breaks her fall. , he goes to go get a stack. Then there hobble down the hill and sure enough months later it was just lying to inches under the ground. These are some of the 500 machine gun rounds. But coming at a rifle but just because you did not find a stripper clips there. I agree. That is going to fall. Adding to the problem that the time is that these would rot after 90 years so thankfully he found those that was used for the bullets. They are very fragile but ive gotta pitcher. Indeed a to renew leases. But there is so much talk about tonight one time for questions but i am often asked for the complete effect his machine gunner. This is interpreted here story. I never diberville is when jerry but most intriguing talking right here is fighting that is depicted in the movie and with his whistle resend these artifacts off for public debt this. These artifacts represent to colts one having fired 15 rounds and another firing nine. Interesting. Somebody else was shooting also. If you look at the pattern each represents where the cartridge is pull the. And were those that were interviewed several times and from upstate new york said i also supported mine. Carrying a french machinegun he tried to fire the machinegun and it was not going. In new york had a good health that day. Help that day. Maybe we to get have recognized but the there is something new is contributing to it. It was just moments before. It is disturbing. In that picture you can see other effects such as these items here. Harmonic the pieces. Almost every private soldier had a harmonica it was a popular instrument so having been endorsed to have the Research Methodology<\/a> scrutinized and analyzed we had the permission to build a trail to walk where your clocked so it was not lost to history. So we put out nine historic markers you pick up language mitt is five connors complete from the Village Center<\/a> beecher line between sign six and seven would have been there is in his own words in never 17 to all who fought there. He is out there as well. My son did his eagle Scout Project<\/a> is the four and after. Because of the generations and use the training the artesian wells and the yellow brick road i hope you can make it out there some time. To then the completed document. What a great way to commemorate a Great American<\/a> hero. He did it there may be others but yes he really could do this. As a Conscientious Objector<\/a> he saved his unit from defeat and countless american lives. And on top of all that the germans had to retreat from a the argonne force. Is a mergers and a major setback and it comes down to 1 million. Me and. It gives us hope from a troubled maker to a virtuous man to a pacifist to a warrior. Looking after his own interest. Wanted to get back into farming and was upset by how people carried on their lives as if Nothing Happened<\/a> he said we cannot live this way any longer period blissful ignorance. Then he would dedicate the rest of his life to schools today York Institute<\/a> in tennessee. He also build a seminary during 1929 and that did not last. But somebody did make a difference. And i would say this is within your grasp as well. Trudy. I will read this excellent quotation. Think about yourself for everything i have said in the choices we make every day we know not of the future but we can hold our spirits and bodies so pure and high with such ideals and dreams of lofty purpose. So what that we can determine when ever or wherever the hour strikes. The predestination guide gives us a charge no bid becomes suddenly different this is why every decision that we make matters. You can change the world. Not bad for a man with a stuttering problem as a young man. Somebody with the stuttering problem to overcome the weakness that was hundreds of lives saved. Anyone else . I am interested of one of battlefield was that public and private . Did you have to gain permission chiru the artifacts . If you go to france zero was set of the man to get the french jet there are very end but then i had to get an affidavit from the mirror to remove these and from the etf to a get permission to fly them. It was not the easy endeavor. Was the original plan for the artifacts . Get the u. S. Army war college. But they were on loan to another facility but not displayed. So and tell i am sure they want in debt in a box within a giant warehouse but could there possibly be done are hawked but jesse handwriting . Even my friends in dead german mom she could read it because that is how she was taught how to read. 80 years ago. Is that where he fired the colts 45 . The neck where the monuments are . The is from the train with us sidearm. We did not have enough money to compromise such as say 70 meters below the mark of course, that is above where we use a rifle is alternation based emery put more centennial stuff up there. Queeney new show does the archival resources i think i read interviews about the family can you tell us about that . Obviously it was key to this the grandson of alvin york when i met him in the 90s you was active military intelligence colonel and has been period supportive and of course, with no zero children per pound few have been to new york state these other great people ashley we were invited to set the house of george york. All great people emigrate every is as well as the twotime twitter greatgrandchildren. Sova York Foundation<\/a> in the thing is forthcoming and what york left behind. I have time for one more. Tell us about the italian. The french and in the american lost to and the germans collapsed around them. Then to make matters worse the 77th divisions see these guys and was starets artillery attack. Even though the germans are all around them. [laughter] yes, sir. Are you considering doing a historical biography such as the very famous murphy . I am. Such a large menu from the First World War<\/a> that are forgotten and i hope to bring some of those down the road. To pass off the importance of learning from the past. And in the cohen quoting remarks concluding remarks we saw somebody to make a difference based off that one choice so i would tell them be like chamberlain. Decide each day to do the right thing. And then you become a man of honor and you can change the world. Thank you all for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next on booktv president ial candidate carly discusses her issues facing the United States<\/a> today. [applause] thank you for that standing ovation. Its a great pleasure to be joined by carly fiorina. 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