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History That Doesn't Suck
Alvin York writes about his experiences in the war, including his hunting skills and his capture of 132 German prisoners in the Argonne Forest, in his own local dialect.
I teched off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home.
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Alvin York writes about his experiences in the war, including his hunting skills and his capture of 132 German prisoners in the Argonne Forest, in his own local dialect.
I teched off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home.
You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones and then they keep on coming until we get them all.
Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it.
I just couldn't help thinking of the boys that only the day before was alive and like me. I would never see them again.
I would never share the same blanket with Corporal Savage. We'd never read the Bible together again.