The history of modern heroism is written in the soil. Find a mound and dig. You will find bones of heroes. Hundreds of thousands died on Meggido and across the globe as the Four Angels came to Earth. St. Michael trumpeted and they came. All of that history in the span of seven years. The mass extinction that followed leaves hints in the soil.

What survived? Extraordinary animals. At the time the Angels came, evolution gave humans a kick in the pants. Lucky us. Without the mutations and adaptations, only those fearful, wretched ground dwellers would have survived. They came up from the earth greedy and blood thirsty. They ate themselves and refuse.

A boy emerged from a cave, or so legend tells us, bearing the moniker of his father. And much like his father he became except he was filled with compassion. When his father was spat out by the head of St. Michael in Meggido, the boy emerged from the cave to find him. History from those times, like those men and even the Wretched, is emerging from the ground and now the truth can be told.

from a lecture by John Hezzac (son of Sean Hezzac, The Hex) at the Centennial of Meggido.

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