Home Page About Us Contact Us Alvin C. York Robert E. Lee Teddy Roosevelt Todd & Lisa Beamer Tom & Cheryl McGuinness Alvin York Quotes "Sir, it is not man power. A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and told me what to do." "I will be a great satisfaction to Mrs. York and yourself [Gracie Williams] to know of the respect which all of us feel for the manly Christian Character displayed by this splendid American." (Lieutenant Colonel Buxton, York's Commander) "And then I knew, too, they were going to give me a big reception when I arrived in New York...And that had me more scared than those machine guns in the Argonne." ..the Germans had to show their heads above the trench, and every time I saw a head I just touched it off. All the time I kept yelling at them to come down. I didn't want to kill any more than I had to. But it was they or I. And I was giving them the best I had." "We went out on the main road and lined up and started for the front and the Germans was shelling the road and the airplanes was humming over our heads, and we were stumbling over dead horses and dead men, and the shells were bursting all around us. And then it was I could see the power of God helped men if they would only trust Him."