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The setting is in a town in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during the World War II. A family of four (a father, mother, and two young sons) slowly and quietly gets dressed in their Sunday best for church. They quietly ascend the stairway to their attic where two foreign pilots wait, one American and one British. The father approaches them and informs them that he’ll be able to get them to a friend in another city in a couple of days.

The family is about to start their services when they hear a loud knock at the door. Everyone freezes. The youngest boy looks over at his brother and then at his parents. Finally the boy’s mother goes slowly down the stairs. The youngest boy watches from the edge of the attic as his mother opens the door, horrified to see two German soldiers standing there with guns in hand. The boy watches as his mother masks her fear and surprise and asks what they want. Though muffled, the boy hears the soldiers assert that they are Latter-day saints (or just members of the same church) and had come to worship with them this Sunday. The mother hesitates, but then asks them to leave their guns at the door and follow her upstairs.

The young boy backs up to his father as his mother and the two soldiers ascend the stairway. Upon seeing the German soldiers, the father shoots a horrified, questioning look at his wife and absolute fear and helplessness registers in the eyes of the two pilots. The German soldiers are equally shocked to see two of the enemy hidden in this attic.

The young boy watches as the mother moves toward her husband and quietly explains that these soldiers are Latter-day Saints (or members of their church) and have come to worship with them today. The father ponders for a second and then asks the British pilot (also a church member) to bless the bread, and one of the German soldiers to bless the water. Still unsure about the situation, no one moves until the German soldier removes his helmet and jacket and moves behind the makeshift sacrament table. The British pilot also removes his jacket and kneels beside the German soldier. The British pilot blesses the bread in English, the German soldier in German. The youngest boy watches as his father passes the tray to the rest in the attic. As the boys face, we hear an older man with a thick accent explain that the pilots were safely moved on to England not long after that experience, but his family never saw the German soldiers again and were never turned in.

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