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Local Nashville voters, Bill Hancock in Tennessee 59 is a great guy who wants to get your property taxes cut. Vote for him. billhancockfortn.com

Kids will knock on 50 doors tonight for a candy bar. Some adults won't walk to one polling place Tuesday. Be more like the kids.

On this day in 1971, the world lost one of its greatest guitarists far too soon when 24-year-old Duane Allman died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash in Macon. Photo by Twiggs Lyndon

50 years ago today, October 22, 1976, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band released Night Moves. 🎸 It was Bob's first studio album to credit the Silver Bullet Band, though the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section backs him on four of the nine songs. Favorite track? Rock and Roll Never Forgets Night Moves The Fire Down Below Sunburst Sunspot Baby Mainstreet Come to Poppa Ship of Fools Mary Lou See how a song Bob almost didn't record became the title track.👇️

I’m No Stranger to the Rain

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real. Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no. His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready. On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge. That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners. So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening. A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting. York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods. By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors. When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132." He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education. When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him. The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

Today is the final day without scheduled NFL or Division I football for two straight months. When you wake up Thursday, a stretch of 61 straight days with at least one football game await, until there is nothing on the calendar Dec. 1 or 2.

SATURDAY CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH 🍿 For the first time since Dec. 1, 2023, there will be SIX AP-ranked games on the same day 🤯🔥

For every kid who was told “you can’t.” ❤️

Welles Crowther was a former Boston College lacrosse player whose trademark was a red bandana. On September 11, 2001, he led people to safety after terrorists struck the World Trade Center. This is his story.

A cross was formed by steel beams recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center site following the Islamist terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. During the recovery efforts, Catholic Mass was celebrated every Sunday at the base of the cross.

Every time Charles Wolf goes to the 9/11 memorial he kisses the name of his Wife Katherine Wolf who worked on the 97th floor of the North Tower. He last saw her at 8:06 a.m."If someone looks at me when I kiss her name, I say, ‘It’s my wife.’That’s when everything changes,” says Wolf.

Mark Messier wearing Chief Downey’s helmet prior to the Rangers first home game following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  One of the most iconic pictures in #NHL history #September11