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AFP news agency: Sergeant York: World War I hero who founded a rural school

 Date: November12,  2018 - France

"What he saw in France... convinced him that education is important," says Gerald York, of his grandfather Alvin, a World War I hero who founded a rural school in Tennessee.

 

 

 

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