Exactly 100 years ago, the guns fell silent. At the famous eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the nightmare that was Wold War I came to an end with the armistice signed in a railroad passenger car in France. More than four years of fighting had left an estimated 9 million combatants and 6 million civilians dead.

Heroes emerged from that carnage. The most famous in America was Sgt. Alvin York, a quiet Tennessee farm boy who on one incredible day killed at least 25 German soldiers and captured 132 others.