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Trevor Collins

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

End quote.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

A beautiful way to say that it got out of hand quick.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

But I appreciate that this is in the novel.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

He's like, it's not real.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Right.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

You know, especially when you're like, well, I set out to do this, but I ended up doing this.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So I'm addressing it.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Right.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

I appreciate that you like my story, but it's fictitious.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So around this time, stories began to emerge, almost kind of like as if something sparked them of soldiers claiming to have seen St.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

George on the battlefield that day or knowing of someone who did.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So suddenly, you know, the timeline shows Macken's story hits the newspapers, gets republished, and then in 1915 becomes a novel with a collection of stories.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And somewhere along this timeline, now people are starting to go, yeah, a buddy of mine who fought in that battle saw this.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Or rumors are stirring of somebody saying, I saw this.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now, others say that they saw a ribbon of shining soldiers coming down between the two armies.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

This is kind of why you see that line of bowmen going kind of infinitely into the horizon.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now, this in particular correlates very well to Macken's own story, as the soldier in the story saw, quote, a long line of shapes with a shining about them, end quote.

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The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

So...

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

Now we're seeing very specific details to the story also appearing in real life.

Red Web
The Story of How An Army of Angels Helped Turn the Tide of a World War I Battle | Angels of Mons

And it's evolving to the point that people are even saying, not only did my buddy see St.