What happens to us after we die? Do you know? Death is understandably an uncomfortable subject,

one which we may easily avoid dwelling on. For those men fighting in the midst of the

Great War, however, they enjoyed no such luxury. But while death itself was rampant and

indiscriminatory across the frontline trenches, there are instances where some of these men

either died or avoided death in ways which

were anything but normal.

What they encountered cannot be explained, and so it is entirely up to our own speculation.

Were they merely premonitions or perhaps hallucinations brought on by mental and physical exhaustion?

Or were these men visited, as they themselves believe, by something supernatural?

Do you believe in ghosts? What about angels and demons?

All things to consider while listening to these men's stories

about seeing death before it happened.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories.

While the average person's experience with death may be attending the funeral of a loved one,

for the soldiers who fought and bled on the front lines of the Great War, death became a daily routine.

Right under their very feet, the earth itself was drenched with the blood of the

fallen, their mangled bodies being buried and unburied by the constant churning of the land.

Most assuredly, these men quite literally stared death in the eyes, the many faces of their

lifeless comrades. However, the diary faces of their lifeless comrades.

However, the diary entries of these men seem to suggest that death not only presented itself to them in the physical sense, but also the spiritual.

And as bizarre as it seems, there are cases where something not of this earth interceded, changing their fate,

guiding these men away from what would have been certain death.

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