While spending a lazy Saturday afternoon on the couch with my dogs, I was treated with AMC showing one of my all time favorite movies in honor of Veterans Day. The movie is called "Sargent York" and chronicles the life of Alvin C. York, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War 1. He was a small town country boy that was called to duty against his will (he had become a Christian and thought that killing, even a enemy, was wrong). The movie shows the inner struggles he had to go through and overcome to later become one of the greatest heroes of the military.
I think more than anything, the reason I like the movie so much is that it shows how hill folk tend to view things. Once scene, when they hear about the war in Europe, shows how they saw things..."yep, thats way over there....they just better not bring it into the Valley of the 3 Forks". It showed the attitude of most raised back then and to a certain extent, today. We have enough to worry about here, no need to spend time worrying about things over there.
Anyway, it is a great movie starring Garry Cooper and I highly recommend it for lazy Saturday afternoon viewing.
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I like that movie too. Sorry that I missed it.
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