Alvin York is one of the most decorated veterans from East Tennessee and was laid to rest at Wolf River Cemetery in 1964. York is a Medal of Honor recipient due to his brave actions in World War I ...

The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest medal ... until ordered to the rear by his regimental commander." Cpl. Alvin C. York, from the 82nd Division, fearlessly engaged the numerically superior ...

Out of 40 million service members, less than 4,000 have received our nation's highest award for gallantry. National Medal of ...

Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and then stop. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those people who fight to ...

Among his comrades were Alvin York, the Tennessee farm boy who won the Medal of Honor for his exploits on the battlefield there and was featured in a Hollywood film; and African American William ...