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service, he was reluctant to accept the

praise and attention that his community

desired to heap upon him. It was then,

for the first time, that he told a story

that had burned deep in his heart and

was hard for him to relate.

Andrew was a young man, thirteen

years old and living in Austria, when

the Germans invaded. The Austrians,

brave and proud, decided to fight back.

In the town where Andrew lived, the

men and teenage boys organized and

destroyed a power plant that the

Germans relied on to continue their war

effort. The men and boys all knew this

would cause great hardship on

themselves as well, for they also relied

on the power from the plant. But the

thing they had not counted on was the

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