For the question posted on: 01/01/07

In the wee hours of New Year's Day 1915, Alvin York made a promise to his mother (who had been praying for him, for many years) that he would quit drinking, smoking, chewing, fighting, and gambling. He decided then and there to dedicate his life to God! In 1917 the United States declared war on Germany and soon thereafter Alvin York was drafted and sent off to Europe. On October 8th, 1918 as a member of a patrol sent to silence a group of German machine-gun nests, York performed one of the greatest single military achievements of the war; he personally killed more than twenty Germans and took 132 prisoners all by himself.  That night after recounting the day's events in his diary, he wrote "So I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that hard battle; for the bushes were shot up all around me, and I never got a scratch". For his heroism York received the Congressional Medal of Honor! Name this battle where York performed these heroic acts on October 8th, 1918.

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