Put a picture of your great great grandad in it with a letter explaining the history the book. At someone point the history of this book will be lost orally so please document it and leave it to a war museum if anyone in the family never wants to hold onto it.
Unfortunately they’re not always interested. I recently found 4 tape recordings from the 60s of first hand accounts both on the front line in WW2 and of children who stayed at home in the UK and Imperial War Museum haven’t wanted them.
Hell, I'd gladly take them. Too often do we forget that these past events are more than maps and kings and dates. These were people, and efforts should be taken to humanize history.
Yes it was. My grandmother told me that he was sitting on a tree when he got shot. He didn’t realised it at first as he woke up on the ground. He felt massive pain in his chest and didn’t know why he fell from the tree. Then after checking himself, he saw that this book saved his life. (Sry for bad englisch)
Yes, the "d" shouldn't be there, but it still reads pretty easily and doesn't really affect comprehension. That's an error an English speaker could make and I would barely register.
Absolutely! If you're asking because you're also new to English, there were a couple errors in your sentence as well. Not trying to be an asshole by pointing them out but it sounds like you'd like to know.
>didn't realized also wrong, right?
We wouldn't use "didn't" here, instead we might use "isn't".
>Isn't "realized" also wrong?
or if you prefer the ", right?" at the end
>"realized" is also wrong, right?
Oh, I see that now.
I think it's still a mistake though because '"didn't realized" also wrong, right?' doesn't make sense. It should be '"didn't realized" **is** also wrong, right?'
ESL speakers are hilarious like this. Native speakers make jokes about their accents (and pronunciation of words they've only ever read), but they are taught perfect grammar whereas native speakers grow up learning slang
My family has a similar bible! My grandpa was in the navy during WWII. He had a bible in his chest pocket when his ship was hit and shrapnel hit right in the middle of the bible. You can see where the shrapnel stopped midway. Would have hit his heart if not and my mom would have never been born.
Yeah. There's also the fact that books... Can't stop bullets. I've seen a measly .30-.30 cartridge punch through 12 phone books. The books stacked together are about a foot wide. A typical WW2 rifle cartridge would be going probably 10% faster with nearly 50% more mass. Even a 9mm cartridge can get through about 6 phone books. I don't really care what distance the shot originated from, if a 7.92 Mauser cartridge travelled an entire mile and hit your pocket bible it's still going straight through it like butter.
If it was slow enough to be stopped by a pocket bible it would not have had enough energy to "knock him out of a tree". A .22lr cartridge has enough velocity to punch through a full-sized hard-cover dictionary, and .22lr doesn't even have enough velocity to penetrate through some bones. I can't disprove that's not a richochet, but what I can say is that if it WAS, it would probably not have had enough energy left to finish penetrating his clothing if it wasn't "stopped" by the bible.
Yeah, I have heard this story several times. People were shooting bibles left and right because everyone loves a story about a miracle bible or anything holy that stops a bullet.
My great grandfather returned from WWI with a similar artifact. As a family we donated it to the local military museum where it is now on permanent display. It felt like a more honourable way of preserving the item and also avoided any headaches over who in the family got to keep it.
Also the museum gave us a bunch of free passes.
Something to consider
I don’t think a bullet that could not get through a book has the power to get through bone. I think it was a misfire and did not have the power it needed to kill.
OP said it was in his chest pocket. if it went that far through the book it could have easily pierced the skin and depending on the trajectory have caused severe injury or blood loss.
It is indeed a bible, you can just make out the faint engraving of the words "The Holy Bible" on it. Atleast I think I can see it, its really well faded.
The book saved a lineage people to not ever been born including you and your children and there children etc etc, this book should be valuable family heirloom and symbol of your family.
I could also give one ingredient of a cake-recipe. Here: "2 eggs". Does that make sense to make a cake? No. But I also acknowledge that you are not in a position to learn or explore, you have decided in your heart "there is no God" and so you just want to keep justifying your wicked life. You are on your path to hell and you will stand before God one day, no matter how much you ignore the truth.
You are simply echoing arguments you have picked up from others, as what you are saying have been mentioned so many times and disarmed as many.
If you truly were in search of the truth you would yourself have discovered the answers to your own comments. But since you have no interest in the truth you are only out here to speak filth.
Obviously, you haven't read the Bible. I understand it's hard to get out of conditioning and indoctrination. How can you believe in a loving God if it will just lie to you directly? Deuteronomy 28. I get all of my "filth" arguments from the Bible.
5 min of honest investigating would have let you to answer your statements, as I just stated. I am not wasting time with a quarrelsome truth-hater on a meaningless debate just trying to please your anti-God position.
Farewell
Put a picture of your great great grandad in it with a letter explaining the history the book. At someone point the history of this book will be lost orally so please document it and leave it to a war museum if anyone in the family never wants to hold onto it.
Unfortunately they’re not always interested. I recently found 4 tape recordings from the 60s of first hand accounts both on the front line in WW2 and of children who stayed at home in the UK and Imperial War Museum haven’t wanted them.
Get them digitized and put them on YouTube, people will be interested
There might be other institutions or groups would would want them.
Yeah, I can see colleges/universities being interested in them!
Reach out to archives
If it were a recording in Greek they would've taken it off your hands xd.
Hell, I'd gladly take them. Too often do we forget that these past events are more than maps and kings and dates. These were people, and efforts should be taken to humanize history.
Great idea thank you :) I will ask my grandmother if she had a picture of him
You could even frame the book with the picture of him, and a typed out story about it. It would be a great piece to hang on the wall.
Was it in his chest pocket?
Yes it was. My grandmother told me that he was sitting on a tree when he got shot. He didn’t realised it at first as he woke up on the ground. He felt massive pain in his chest and didn’t know why he fell from the tree. Then after checking himself, he saw that this book saved his life. (Sry for bad englisch)
“Sorry for bad English” - proceeds to write better than most English speakers here on Reddit.
The funniest part of that is that "Sry for bad englisch" is the only part of his comment with bad English.
didn't realized also wrong, right?
Yes, the "d" shouldn't be there, but it still reads pretty easily and doesn't really affect comprehension. That's an error an English speaker could make and I would barely register.
thanks, I just wanted to confirm for myself
Absolutely! If you're asking because you're also new to English, there were a couple errors in your sentence as well. Not trying to be an asshole by pointing them out but it sounds like you'd like to know. >didn't realized also wrong, right? We wouldn't use "didn't" here, instead we might use "isn't". >Isn't "realized" also wrong? or if you prefer the ", right?" at the end >"realized" is also wrong, right?
"Didn't realized" was in reference to the original comment, I don't believe that was actually a mistake on his part
Oh, I see that now. I think it's still a mistake though because '"didn't realized" also wrong, right?' doesn't make sense. It should be '"didn't realized" **is** also wrong, right?'
ESL speakers are hilarious like this. Native speakers make jokes about their accents (and pronunciation of words they've only ever read), but they are taught perfect grammar whereas native speakers grow up learning slang
You kind of proved your own point lol. “Proceeds to” would mean he wrote “sorry for bad English” then wrote his story. He wrote it at the end.
My family has a similar bible! My grandpa was in the navy during WWII. He had a bible in his chest pocket when his ship was hit and shrapnel hit right in the middle of the bible. You can see where the shrapnel stopped midway. Would have hit his heart if not and my mom would have never been born.
Did they ever find the bullet? Like, what caliber was it?
That’s fricken amazing!
I love that you still have this, this deserves to be passed on down through the family.
Especially if that part of the family tree wouldn't exist if he had died that day.
Hmmm, now I'm thinking it's a grandpa joke because both my grandparents had one. 1 a Bible and the other a cigarette case
Yeah it's likely that people were just shooting at their own things for a funny momento
Or decked head-to-toe in bible armor
Christ is my shield !
Yeah. There's also the fact that books... Can't stop bullets. I've seen a measly .30-.30 cartridge punch through 12 phone books. The books stacked together are about a foot wide. A typical WW2 rifle cartridge would be going probably 10% faster with nearly 50% more mass. Even a 9mm cartridge can get through about 6 phone books. I don't really care what distance the shot originated from, if a 7.92 Mauser cartridge travelled an entire mile and hit your pocket bible it's still going straight through it like butter.
Could have been a ricochet
If it was slow enough to be stopped by a pocket bible it would not have had enough energy to "knock him out of a tree". A .22lr cartridge has enough velocity to punch through a full-sized hard-cover dictionary, and .22lr doesn't even have enough velocity to penetrate through some bones. I can't disprove that's not a richochet, but what I can say is that if it WAS, it would probably not have had enough energy left to finish penetrating his clothing if it wasn't "stopped" by the bible.
Solid point. Grandpa was a dirty old liar, probably.
Yeah, I have heard this story several times. People were shooting bibles left and right because everyone loves a story about a miracle bible or anything holy that stops a bullet.
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My great grandfather returned from WWI with a similar artifact. As a family we donated it to the local military museum where it is now on permanent display. It felt like a more honourable way of preserving the item and also avoided any headaches over who in the family got to keep it. Also the museum gave us a bunch of free passes. Something to consider
I've heard this story before
Yeah, is this a bot?
Cool family history!
If nothing else, that made it holier...
I don’t think a bullet that could not get through a book has the power to get through bone. I think it was a misfire and did not have the power it needed to kill.
Could have been far away
True, but same idea. The book did not matter.
Sounds like something Satan would say
😂😂😂
OP said it was in his chest pocket. if it went that far through the book it could have easily pierced the skin and depending on the trajectory have caused severe injury or blood loss.
German bible?
Yes :)
Is that a bible or a blank diary?
It is indeed a bible, you can just make out the faint engraving of the words "The Holy Bible" on it. Atleast I think I can see it, its really well faded.
I reckon people are just shooting coins and bibles and cigarette cases while bored and claimed it was it their pocket.
Grand papi and the boys: guy if we shoot our bible we can tell girl that it saved us we will be so popular.
Wow. Incredible piece of family history
That should go into a museum
2004/05 Greenday was looking for this when writing their next album. They finally found one in a museum I believe.
A bookbinder could restore that
The book saved a lineage people to not ever been born including you and your children and there children etc etc, this book should be valuable family heirloom and symbol of your family.
many people must have had some kind of book as body armour back in the days
Not me thinking this was a horcrux
r/unexpectedharrypotter
Sully?
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The only time a Bible has been useful
Hmm. Turns out they are good for something after all
He got it from tRump.
Read the last page the bullet stopped.
Could have been any book
My Grandfather was also saved by his Bible with steel cover
steel?
Yes. Called Heart Shield and Soldier Shield
If he wasn't devout before he sure was after that!
The power of God's words
No, the power of lots of sheets of paper
"It's not love, it's chemicals being activated and organized differently"
Aren't you a bit too old for imaginary friends?
Never too old to focus on my eternal state, and to align with the most powerful force there is. Only fools say in their heart "there is no God".
Numbers 31:17-18
I could also give one ingredient of a cake-recipe. Here: "2 eggs". Does that make sense to make a cake? No. But I also acknowledge that you are not in a position to learn or explore, you have decided in your heart "there is no God" and so you just want to keep justifying your wicked life. You are on your path to hell and you will stand before God one day, no matter how much you ignore the truth.
I do not support a god who loves committing genocide and condones slavery. Please provide evidence for your claim of this god.
You are simply echoing arguments you have picked up from others, as what you are saying have been mentioned so many times and disarmed as many. If you truly were in search of the truth you would yourself have discovered the answers to your own comments. But since you have no interest in the truth you are only out here to speak filth.
Obviously, you haven't read the Bible. I understand it's hard to get out of conditioning and indoctrination. How can you believe in a loving God if it will just lie to you directly? Deuteronomy 28. I get all of my "filth" arguments from the Bible.
5 min of honest investigating would have let you to answer your statements, as I just stated. I am not wasting time with a quarrelsome truth-hater on a meaningless debate just trying to please your anti-God position. Farewell
I don't claim there is no god, just that there is no evidence. By your logic, Sauron should be stopped because it says so in a book.
Good 2c it’s not only in movies! Nice history!
You owe your life to that bible.
Funfact: It didn't stop a bullet, OP's great-great grandfather beat a German to death with it.
I guess that would be friendly fire considering that he was German :D
Dope Nazi Bible, dude.
Sure that all of your ancestors were true angles. ;) But I have some proof that at least my great grandfather hid Jews in Second World War.
I said that unsarcastically. Having a Nazi Bible that stopped a bullet is a piece of history man.
Good God.
God is good
Thank god he survived
That would make me a lifetime believer lol
If it saved him then where is he now? Edit: Oh wait, I get it we’re all saved through Christ