https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmRRhxo0RHc Here in Pall Mall, Tenn., you can walk up on the front porch of the Forbus General Store, est. 1892, and still hear Alvin C. York's rich Tennessee accent. Every day, the older neighbors gather on the store's front porch. "My grandfather used to cut Sgt. Alvin York's hair," Richard West recalls. "He would pay a quarter. He was a big man, redheaded." York was a Medal of Honor winner. One of the most decorated American heroes of World War I. At the end of the war, when he returned to his home here in the mountains of north Tennessee, all he wanted was to build a school. A school that would help his neighbors' kids get the education he had missed. York had only finished the third grade in a one-room school. His family needed him on the farm. But he liked to read, kept a diary, and because of the war had seen a world beyond the ridgeline: London, Paris, New York. Pete Smith, whittling red cedar on the porch, remembers the day of Alvin York's
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