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Alvin Cullum York  

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  • World War I Hero In the last days of World War I, Alvin C. York came marching out of the Argonne Forest with 132 German prisoners and a remarkable story of individual daring. One of the least likely combat heroes in American history, the Tennessee-born York initially sought conscientious objector status based on his membership in the Church of Christ in Christian Union—a small, pacifist denomination founded in Ohio during the Civil War. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; York, Alvin Cullum (1887—1964)]

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