Friday afternoon Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, National
Guardsmen, and Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University, were
riding a passenger train from Amsterdam to northern France. Their peaceful trip
was shattered by the sound of gunshots and breaking glass. “I saw a guy
entering the carriage with an AK-47,” said Alek. “I just looked at Spencer and
said, ‘Let’s go.’”
“Spencer made first contact; he tackled the guy,” said their
friend Anthony. “Alek wrestled the gun away from him. The gunman pulled a box
cutter and sliced Spencer a few times. And the three of us beat him until he
was unconscious.”
“We just did what we had to do,” added Alek. “You either run
away or fight. We chose to fight and got lucky and didn’t die.” If these three
friends were lucky Friday, so was everyone else on that train. Everyone except, of
course, the man with the gun.
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