This Bible Took Bullets, and Saved a WWI Veteran's Life

Michael Foust : Oct 31, 2018
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"When I hold the Bible I just get a special feeling. It might sound a bit strange but it makes me feel comfortable and happy. It's a nice feeling that it saved his life. It makes me feel close to him." -Ena Thompson

[ChristianHeadlines.com] The daughter of a British World War I veteran says a bullet-scarred pocket Bible saved her father's life. (Screengrab image: the Bible with two holes from a German machine gun attack/via Sky News)

Ena Thompson, 87, described during a recent speech at the Royal British Legion's 2018 Poppy Appeal how her father's life was spared.

Her father, 23-year-old Private Leslie Friston, was recovering in a hospital bed from a gas attack when a German plane flew overhead in 1917 and machine-gunned the building, Sky News reported. The Bible was on his bedside table. Without the Bible, the bullets could have ricocheted and killed Friston... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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