I think most of us over the age of 35 have heard stories from the various relatives from the wars of the 20th century .....
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| 2nd Lt. William Alexander Lytle's Cigarette Case |
.... about bullets being stopped by a range of objects, ranging from cigarette cases to bibles.
Stories such as that of 2nd Lt. William Alexander Lytle's wife Bertha Elizabeth Lytle, giving him a silver cigarette case as a wedding gift in 1916. He had kept it in his breast pocket and it was later struck by a spent bullet in World War 1 and saved the life of the British officer. While in the same war during the battle of the Somme, Private F.C. Shuter's life was saved by a cigarette case that stopped a bullet from hitting him on July 10, 1916. The bullet is still stuck inside the case, along with a couple of cigarettes, and is on display in the Fusilier Museum.
These events continue right up to today .... in November 2022, it was reported that an Israeli citizen who had been caught up in a terrorist bomb attack in Jerusalem was hit by shrapnel from the bomb, but his life was saved because the potentially lethal bit of metal was stopped by the Book of Psalms that he had in his pocket.
The shrapnel was stopped part way into the book at Psalm 124, which reads, "our soul escaped like a bird from the hunters snare: the snare broke, and we escaped."
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