LUDRES, France (AP) - After decades of searching, Andre Gantois had lost hope. The retired French postal worker figured he`d likely go to his grave without ever knowing who his father was, unable to identify the U.S. serviceman who had fought his way across France after the D-Day landings, taken a bullet to the skull and been nursed back to health in a military hospital by Gantois` mother. Into his seventies, Gantois still had no clues to pursue, no name to work with, no paper trail to follow. As a consequence, he also had no peace. `Throughout my life, I lived with this open wound,` he says. `I never accepted my situation, of not knowing my father and, most of all, knowing that he didn`t...
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