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sniper’s range. As he took off, his men opened fire at the gunman to, in turn, draw his fire. Still, Randall could hear the bullets whizzing past. At one point he tripped, and it likely saved his life as a bullet missed a direct hit, and instead only tore a bloody gash in his arm. The pain momentary dazed him, but the thought of a promise he had made gave determination to continue. When Germany had invaded France, he and his family had been over from America to visit his relatives. He placed his wife and son on a ship back to America, and then joined the French resistance. Before he had, he had promised his young son, who was barely 10, that he would return. Knowing his family was safe in America brought him peace, and his promise gave him perseverance during all the long years of fighting and the two years he had spent as a prisoner of war. Once the American and British forces had liberated the prison camp he was interred in, he joined the American forces to try to put a final end to the conflict. He and his small group of men had been sent on a reconnaissance mission to verify that this small 20