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Germans had done and for what he had suffered in the prison camp. He started to squeeze the trigger. Then he remembered his own son, and considered that this boy probably had a family somewhere who hoped he would return home just as he hoped to return to his own family. Many times Randall nearly squeezed the trigger as the battle between his hatred for the Germans and the soldier’s youthfulness raged within him, but finally, the thoughts of his own son won, and forced him to risk the danger of taking the boy prisoner. He inched closer and, when he was finally close enough, he barked out, “Drop your weapon!” The boy did as he was told. At Randall’s command, the boy rose to his feet and turned around. When he did, both of them gasped, as father and son looked into each other’s eyes. Randall couldn’t believe what he saw. “Peter, son, what are you doing in a German 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 22