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uniform?!”
“Father, we never made it to America. Our
ship was stopped, and the Germans took many
of us boys and forced us to fight for them. All
the rest are dead. I didn’t want to fight for
them, Father, I really didn’t!”
Randall looked at the gun in his hand that
Peter was eying fearfully, and he considered
what he had nearly done out of misplaced
hatred. He wondered how many people were
innocently caught up in the horrors of war and
were killed simply because of how someone
else perceived them. He threw the gun aside
and swept his son into his arms.
As Randall’s grandchildren bounced
noisily into the room, Randall replaced the rifle
into its revered spot. He smiled as his son and
his beautiful daughter-in-law entered, and she
placed the newest member of their family into
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