Alvin C York was a reluctant private in the US Army during WWI. He was a religious man and a pacifist, and he tried unsuccessfully to get out of service.
He was with a small team of 17 that had been sent behind enemy lines when they suddenly came under heavy machinegun fire. Nine died instantly, including the man in charge, but they didn't get Private York. He was a Tennessee hunter from childhood and a truly deadly shot, and he began picking off the enemy as he moved toward their position. In the end, he killed 20 and returned to his base with 132 prisoners and several wounded Americans. He was promoted to Sergeant York and became one of America's greatest and most decorated war heroes.
Kind of makes my one Fortnite victory feel a little hollow
All of this was to say my daughter is interviewing for a Ranger position at Sergeant Alvin C York State Park on Thursday. Just wanted you to know where the name came from.
Well, I was one class short of a useless philosophy minor in college and have read pretty much most of the significant philosophers, and I was going to say that I was still waiting for my ramifications, but that isn't true. The ramifications of Naturalism, Empiricism, Pragmatism and other schools of thought come baked into the world we are born in the same way religion used to. I had my first experience of existential dread at age 4 when I decided that God didn't exist. I was actually inside a church at the time in daycare. So, yes, I have had my fair share of the ramifications of philosophy.