A new memoir details the harrowing wartime experiences of World War II veteran Andy Andrews, who struggled to reconcile the horrific violence of the war with his strong Christian faith.
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When he got closer to the dugout, Andrews heard children sobbing and discovered that three German boys no older than 7 were pulling a rope to keep the machine gun going. The Nazis had apparently ordered the children to maintain that position as they retreated. He embraced the terrified boys, offered them chewing gum and ensured that the Americans took care of them.
Silence lingered for 30 minutes, during which time Andrews thought the soldier was dead until a white handkerchief emerged in the early-morning darkness."May I surrender? Please, may I surrender?" the badly bloodied soldier cried out to Andrews in broken English as he crawled over to him. When Al Andrews and his father visited Normandy in 1994 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invasion, he remembered that Andy kneeled down and wept among the graves of the Germans, pleading for their forgiveness.
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