The Angel of Mons | A Supernatural World War One Story 

" the fighting stopped while they passed over " ......i am so moved by this image. Thank you 🌹

Hi, yeah that sounds right. I can just imagine everything going quiet as it happened, then everyone going that was weird now back to the job at hand.😂

Wow. Glad your grandad survived to tell the tale Elaine.

I remember my mum telling me her dad said the same, I never knew my grandad as he passed away when I was about 6 months old.

Wow! I wish I could have spoken to your grandfather about the battle of Mons and the angels. How blessed you were to hear his story. Take care.

What a lovely story of your Great Grandfather Chris, thank you.

Chris….your great grandfather was no ordinary man….we owe our lives to such men….thank you!

@@thehistorysquad I wouldn't call that A "Lovely" story..... but that's war for you!! Let's not forget that the Turks were warned to get out of God's allotment before 1914.... Within the 50th Year Jubilee of 1917-1918 TE Laurence and our Arabian brotherhood had managed to clear the Jordan and take Aqaba: this cleared the way to Jerusalem and freed the Holy Land of 400 years of Islamic rule! A SIGN of the end of the 1st WORLD WAR and begining of the FIG TREE NATION of Jews!

@@valerieenglish1003 thank you for your service

Now you know why your grandfather never talked about it. Many men went mad, or became skocking alcoholics trying to forget what they were forced to do (by protected generals), to other human beings. The horror of it, and memories was too much for them. Still happening to most soldiers today. Mind you a percentage thrive on killing and torturing, they are psychopathic and join up in hopes of having opportunity. All common soldiers today have a choice. Say NO, or kill and be killed, and for what, so that Klaus Schwab and his friends can get richer, own more property and totally control populations. What the police and soldiers don't understand, is that "control" includes them, their wives, children and extended families.

Haha, nice one. One of my heroes in history is Mahatma Gandhi, I was thinking about doing a film one day on his early life. What do you think?

Great comment Wolfgang, thanks 👍🏻

Former Infantryman here as well, but I have seen angels and demons along the way. It started when I was very young. The angel I saw was the most spectacular thing I've ever seen. He stood an average height around six feet. He and his clothes seemed to be made solely of an intensely bright golden light, but that light did not emanate outward at all. The light was contained within the defined features of his body and clothing as though the light itself was the material from which they were formed. He visited after about a year of desperate prayer for God to defend us from the demons that haunted me during the nights. When I woke that night instead of demons I saw the angel staring down at my brother who was sleeping about 10-15 feet over, and he turned his head and looked directly at me when I stopped in the doorway. The demons never returned. I did however see/hallucinate a laughing demonic face right in front of me when a suicide bomber turned his vbied directly towards my humvee at high speed during a patrol. There was no time to react, and we were blocked in and unable to evade anyway. I accepted my death, but was still pissed off at the demonic face laughing at my imminent demise. I guess God's angels were still watching over me, because the vbied failed to detonate. The were several times during that first trip to Iraq that hardened atheists took a more agnostic approach when they said, "I don't know who or what, but there is obviously a higher power looking after you..." and, "...it's like the hand of God is around you (protecting me) when we're out there." I have struggled with things like everyone else, and I have regrets for decisions/actions throughout life in which I would feel unworthy of a guardian angel, but I am reminded the Bible says of God, "...He is good. His mercy endureth forever." I am grateful for God's protection, and I try to live in a worthy way according to the Golden Rule (do unto others as ye would they do unto you). Not to earn a worthy status, but out of gratitude for God's mercy and protection, and to spread the love and good news of God's incredible long-suffering mercy/forgiveness/love.

@@sgtbender1335 God loves the soldier thanks for your miracle and miracles you shared. I feel God intervenes much more often with soldiers, alas, they don't say cause who is going to believe them.... Peace and Love Bender!!!

@@sgtbender1335 Beautiful testimony. You are God's child; He created you. You are important to Him and to the world. God bless you always.

@@thehistorysquad Psalm 34:7 “The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.”…….

Or shell shocked, trauma.

I also heard one Christmas at Edge Hill the battle could be seen in the sky and a horse man goes through the local pub

Absolutely. I totally agree.

Interesting

Look up what I have heard called the "stone/tape theory" The basic idea is that natural materials, such as wood and stone can somehow absorb elements of dramatic and/or traumatic events.

I too have lost much of my short stage memory because of too much anesthesia. It's a living hell. Your granddad suffered. Hopefully he found rest in death.

Gosh, I've often wished I'd asked more questions too 👍🏻

Thank you for your service and your great respect for his.

What is a dough boy, please?

@@MariVictorius the Americans in wwi. That was the nickname they were given

@@MariVictoriusPeople thought they were covered in ash and looked like dough boys. But in fact, most US GIs spent the war kneading dough.

Merci Denis 👍🏻

'SIR??!! SIR??!!! NEVER CALL A NON COMMISSIONED OFFICER (Private, Lance - Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant) SIR!!!!! WE work for a Fucking living!!!

I will always have my eyes open to God's wonders and signs Our Lord told us of many for the end times And while some believers can be doubtful almost cynical I will always have my eyes open for a miracle. For Our Living God does not just live on the pages of a book but omni present omnipotent we only need look. From the beginning to the end Eternity is His Reign All Glory and Honour over over His Dominion and Majesty Let us always see creation through faith truth and clarity. 🙏

No coincidence God is real 🙏

Why didn't the angels help out in 1940?

That's kind Jay, thank you 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Thank you also for your service to our country ❤🇬🇧

Not a nice experience, I've experienced them too, but not under such extreme conditions. 👍🏻

I saw a guy fight a tree in the field when I was in the army (no sleep, fatigued, cold, and hungry). He said he fought it because he claimed, it tried to snatch his weapon. Funny thing is that the branches of the tree were wrapped around his m16.

I spent a whole year in solitary confinement. I didn't go crazy but I became a hermit and have reoccurring realistic nightmares about being in that cell. Part of you never leaves...

@@scottashe984 Wow! I’m an extreme introvert and live like a hermit but I don’t think I could do solitary. I at least have my pets and can call friends and family whenever I’m in the mood. But forced isolation for a year? No thanks. I’m glad you survived although it seems you still have the scars.

I went through Sear school in the 90's and am glad I did. Even though it was not the whole nine yards (They did not shoot or hang anyone) it pushed me to my limits and then some and I came out stronger for it. One thing I did was sing hymns and recite the Bible in my mind. The human mind is a very fragile thing I heard the guards coming and talking when no one was there.

Thanks for adding to the dialogue Michael 👍🏻

You are speaking of The White Cavalry. 🙂👍

@@typetersen8809 Hi, yeah it’s a story that happened at Bathune in northern France. There was another story about a hill that what appeared to have, a British battalion dug in on, apparently the Germans shelled the proverbial out of it but when they went to take it they couldn’t find a single dead soldier. I heard this one growing up and from memory it seemed to act as a distraction in favour of the allies.

@@michaelhayman2549 The Angels of Mons and The White Cavalry can both be found on the net and either downloaded or printed. I know. I printed both out about 8 years back! Thank you, Michael. Appreciated your response.

To many accounts from all sides all the same story, ,I believe they were not lying

Wow, you must be very proud. 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad yes I am he was a good man . He didn't say too much about it just that he couldn't leave his friends. Thanks for the reply and keep the videos coming I always watch

Cheers Dev, I appreciate your comment and agree.

Thanks Ginny, I'm glad you're enjoying the channel.

Ditto Ginny. History was my minor in college, but I’m French, English as far as you can know in the US. I feel like I’ve been sitting around a roaring fire listening to a wonderful storyteller.

I thought the Battle of Gettysburg, in PA was in the American Revolutionary War, not the Civil War? I should know, I'm American and actually live near Gettysburg, I've visited the site of the battle, but now I'm questioning myself!

@@kmdn1 correct. It was the civil war. I don’t know if it would’ve been as big of a battle then if it was during the revolution. And if I lived near Gettysburg I’d be there every day lol

So glad you differentiated the fact the UK is multiple countries it annoys me when people say the country and then say gb. It's not a country same with forms country uk. Erm no. Silly i know. I'm very specific Asperger's for you.

What a lovely family memory Matthew. I too lost a family member in the North Staffs, he was just 18 and died of his wounds in Belgium. It's very difficult because around a third of documents were lost in the Blitz, not by fire, but by the fire hoses. Have you been to or been in touch with the Staffordshire Regimental Museum? It's a good place to start. But also documents are being released all of the time, so Ancestry is quite good and the Public Records Office, but the Regimental Museums might also do some research for you, though it might cost a bit.

@@thehistorysquad yes I’ve tried the Staffordshire Reg Museum a few years back but they they hadn’t any records apart from his enlistment and his transfer to the East Yorks. I’ve not approached the Reg of York’s museum yet. Will do though. Maybe you can answer something for me. We were once told that he once was tied to the wheel of an artillery piece as a punishment for striking an officer. We always doubted that, would he of been shot for striking an officer?

@@sue3028 thanks.

My husbands grandad was at the Battle and saw the angel and later they had a medal for the people who saw it but we don't know where it went to.

I want to remember it to remember him and all those like him who walked into hell. Forever.

How lovely, thanks for sharing Richard 👍🏻

My grandfather was at Mons, he joined up in 1912, and always maintained he'd seen the Angels of Mons.

When hallucinations affect a boy raised on Xtian lores ...

@@bvllseye4068 Well, one day, I hope you will see them, and their sweet Queen.

@@sperestillan what did they look like or do, did he describe them?

My grandad was at Gallipoli too, lucky enough to return. I was only mid teens when he passed, so never got to hear the stories first Hand. He did tell my dad though of the seas running red with blood, which is well documented in history. You can’t imagine the horror that people of those times must have seen.

My great grandfather was a Petty Officer in the Royal Naval Division. His battalion ‘Collingwood’ was slaughtered at the Third Battle of Krithia on 4th June.

What a lovely treasure to have 👍🏻

Yes, I've heard of this, thanks for reminding me of this lovely story. 👍🏻

I’ve never heard of that story.. (I know of padre Pio) … perhaps I will get to hear of it on this channel at some stage.

Thank you for recounting this story. I am relatively new to St Padre Pio, but have heard that St Pio was very fond of American servicemen and many remarkable and unexpected miracles were granted by St Pio to them. It is said St Pio could bi locate, levitate, communicate with Guardian Angels, read one’s soul, and of course intercede on our behalf with God to perform miracles. The miracles concerning servicemen are some of my favourites. The website ‘Following Padre Pio’ has featured a number of these . I for one do not at all discount the reports of the Angel (s) of Mons. Not just hallucinations. Especially the Germans seeing masses of British soldiers then as a result , falling back. If one reads accounts of people in dire straits whose attackers strangely took fright and ran off, invariably the attackers will claim that they ‘saw’ very large or very numerous men /troops, etc and decided to retreat post haste. Just a classic m.o. of angels 😇!

@@dorothydecesare1607 Miracles are granted by GOD alone but he uses human mediums

@@dorothydecesare1607 St. Martin de Porres had similar if nit all these gifts. He could bilocate, levitate and fought the devil. He also had spiritual discernment, or could read souls. When he was exhumed 25 years after his death, he was found to be uncorrupt. He wasn't allowed to become a priest because he had black skin.

Well said Garrett.

Life is a rude slog really. Thankfully during this day and age of technology and multiculturalism that our Soldiers are still seriously remembered. Just about every park in every NSW town here in Australia, there is a Soldier and memorial, all very nicely kept. The Aborigines trashed many emblems of Captain Cook and the like but thankfully The War Memorials are still precious and well preserved.

@@bonniemagpie9960 what's wrong with multiculturalism?

@@dperson9212 , How about reading it like, ' many new/other cultures have integrated into our Societies nowadays as they know/understand very little about World Wars l and ll instead of being a Nazi?

@@bonniemagpie9960 I see, a bit like the colonisation of Australia I suppose, with the settlers knowing naf all of the people they surplanted. But anyway, as someone who lives in the most diverse part of the UK, the friends I have grown up with are well aware of WW1 and WW2 and the impact it had on society. Mainly thanks to our education system. Multiculturalism had absolutely nothing to do with lack of understanding.

No permanent friends,only permanent interests

Blood Brothers, that why!

Yes, it's a great story to be told. 👍🏻

Sorry correction valor not valiance

@@jackiemack8653 D'oh!

Cheers Mattie, glad you enjoyed the vid 👍🏻

Cheers Calamity, I've just visited Mount Moriah cemetery in Deadwood.......I knew you weren't dead 😜

​@@thehistorysquad 🤣

Glad you like them!

@@thehistorysquad The miniatures are like old-time TV; with echoes too of course of playing as every boy has with toy soldiers, plastic the past 50 years but before then cast tin or lead. I remember as a child a BW TV presentation by movie star Kirk Douglas maneuvering toy soldiers while, like your's, telling a riveting story.

@@carlcushmanhybels8159 Sometimes simple is all you need to get a story across 👍🏻

Ah, the die-hards 👍🏻

My grandfather was there too. Never talked about the battle or the Angel except to say “ some bloody strange things happened out there”!

@Slyphie The Forest Elf hello from France. Couldn't you believe in angels, if you believe in demons ?

@@paulinesimon2257 have to say, if several or many soldiers saw the Angel of Mons, despite terrible exhaustion, it can't have been a case of mass hallucination. Interesting, anyhow.

Well said 👍🏻

I have visited 2 battlefields in my time, and there is certain strangeness about the places. An energy as you describe.

@@glenchapman3899 I have visited all in PA, DC and Virginia and all have that strange energy. I think that the energy replays ever so often and it is most of the time like a movie if you are at the right time and place on the field.

@MaGuffintop interesting perspective

I have visited Gettysburg twice in my lifetime, and do not care to return. The overwhelming sense of incredible sadness and hopelessness that I perceived was undeniable. The strength of the feeling was beyond our mortal reasoning. Also what was extraordinarily palpable was the sense of areas of Evil amongst the battlefields and roads. Although I was not personally afraid, I pity those who must experience it. Terribly, terribly heartwrenchingly sad. 😔

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I know exactly what you are saying if you happen to see something out of the ordinary.. your life may not change. But your mindset changes completely. You feel like your blessed and cursed at the same time I have experienced something very strange after the passing of my girlfriend

ykdickbill, you are correct 👍when the trumpet blows next time 📯 I hope that those who hear it will put their trust in the Almighty, because what's coming down the pipe will require defence mechanisms, how can I say it ? that are not of mans design or making. You can also read my comment above. 👍

My path didn´t start with the incredible and spectacular. I was just in high school, taking education seriously thanks to my atheist humanist dad, and opened up a book on religion and stopped by a progressive religious place. After that, I started slowly looking into spiritual ideas, with a tai chi class at the end of high school, a Zen sitting at the end of college, and a Kung Fu class then for a year. You might say I worked my way up to some real spiritual expertise, with a college degree in Bio Anthro and work in social services as anchors for how important psychological attention is. Jesus taught "seek the Kingdom of Heaven" after all. Healing is a practical part of that. That´s been my own anchor. That alone gets at the way Jesus´ commandments of love connect to modern education and democratic culture, with Britain´s Parliament a big part of that, and then the US breaking formal aristocracy. But, the temptations of materialism are also there, and still rampant. So, just as WW II became a spiritual experience for much of Europe, Social Europe most of all, there is more to it. We shouldn´t need the devastation of war to value social values, but that takes actual spiritual practice. Besides not dying of cancer like my dad at a young age, I have had generally good health, have defied the rampant ideological materialism of popular culture pretty well, and had a miraculous experience with my little family protected in a bus robbery. Looking at Joan of Arc in history is one touch, and then the rest of Christian history, Jesus´ legacy, having all the holy people called "saints." Yet, it´s available for everybody who has some basic level of spiritual-religious awareness. Ultimately, the key is experiences that result in protection. Rasputin in Czarist Russia is a famous example, no less. A German Adventist family, with Franz Hasel the father, gave a testimony in the book A Thousand Shall Fall, of a complete sort. The Christian Scientists have many testimonies. Hacksaw Ridge about Desmond Doss in WWII for the US as a medic is another. And they´re not all the same. There are different spiritual-religious qualities that get displayed for all the mixed issues involved, overall.

@@ocomin8089 don't forget the animals that seem to be protected in war. Like the horse that carried a heap of wounded men out think it was 6 not sure 🙏 from Australia 💓

@@nothingnobody6688 Hi, Thanks, I haven't heard of that one, but yes, there are indeed many referenced stories like that. What so many don't seem to realise is, that the physical laws can be suspended by the Angelic Realm, especially to protect those who are under the care of the Almighty. I myself experienced such an event one cold morning many years ago, where when entering a main road from the tree sheltered lane of our house, with 2 of our young children in the car. I was suffering with bad sinusitis at the time, which can severely affect the eyes & clear vision, so as I crossed the lane for traffic coming from my right to get into the opposite lane, & as I straightened up in my lane there was a car going away from immediately in front of me at high speed. After a few seconds, I realised that the speeding car had gone right through my path & I didn't see it 'till it was going away from immediately in front of me. The shock of what had just happened resulted in my having to pull over and recover from the shock, but I knew that the laws of physics had been suspended right there for several seconds, otherwise, we would have all been wiped out. Subsequently, a few years ago, I seen a clip of a CCTV camera that captured a very similar event of a main light controlled highway junction in Eastern Asia, where literally in an instant, a human shaped light, appeared like lightening transferring the moving motorcyclist to the direction he was headed in, right out the path of a speeding car just as it was about to hit him. The angel form appeared to comfort & reassure him for several seconds before disappearing again with incredible speed. So yes, if we trust Him, he can & will protect us as we go, whatever the situation. 😊👍

Happy holidays! Nice one Joseph, thanks 👍🏻

Ah, I know that heat in Cyprus, I served up on the Turkish line in the early 80s, just an ordinary Tommy 👍🏻

And as the saying goes……” wars are started by old men and fought by young ones”

Thanks Dorothy, it's my pleasure.

I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this video come up, I had been smitten with this story of the angels of Mons some years ago on a TV program ide missed some of the content an regretted it, it angers me when people dismiss these amazing events even when others have witnessed it too. One of my friends sat fishing on the bank of the Norfolk Broads when she heard a lot of noise coming around a corner of the river she sat transfixed as a huge Roman Gallleon came sailing past her an her friend the soldiers were all in Battle gear some shouting, some waving swords about, they could clearly see their faces, but as quickly as they appeared the whole apperition faded away right in front of their eyes, it happens! No denying it, Thank u for a truly wonderful video, an told so excellently. More Please

It could have something to do with our perception of time. We see time as linear because of our dimensional perception, but it could be very different. The Bible says that to our Creator a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. Our perception of time could be very flawed.

@@janeallanuj7736 You are right! Many just dismissing this when it has happened all over. Gettysburg battlefield 🇺🇸 has reportedly had some strange events happen. Soldiers marching, cannons firing. Lights that a relative who lives near the battlefield has seen and he was not exhausted from battle.

@@sgtbender1335 This is what thinking, time is essentially a human construct, perhaps everything that has happened and will happen is always happening. Hard to comprehend but it'd explain a lot of these supernatural events.

What are roundheads, please?

Ah, that's really kind Jake thank you!!

Absolutely agree. Great telling of the story. The Style reminded me a little of Dixon of Dock Green, but that was when I were a wee laddie! Of two Great Grandfathers who saw service in WW1; on either side! Little did they know that they would be unified by subsequent generations.

Cheers for watching Mark 👍🏻

Cheers Dave 👍🏻

Hey Joe, thanks very much. I now live in Canada but I will be watching the Investiture closely, just as I did when Charles became Prince of Wales. Incidentally, I've just come back from the US, Little Bighorn and Deadwood on a fact finding mission for future films 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad wherebdonyiubkivenin Canada? I was born and raised in Michigan, spent a lot of time in Canada. Ontario mostly, Stratford for its Shakespearean Summer Theater, Niagara, Toronto, even Quebec City! Recently Visited Victoria on West coast. Cape Breton Island is on my bucket list soon! All the best, looming forward to hockey season! Live in Florida now, so i am a Tampa Bay Lightning Fan! All the best!

@@thehistorysquad little Big Horn! Custer was an interesting character for sure. Brilliant in the civil war as a cavalry commander. I have studied his life and career, can recommend some good books. One is historical fiction called “The Court Martial of George Custer”. Recommend Gettysburg, PA for a future trip to the USA. Also, 2 French and Indian War Forts in Michigan, One in Mackinaw City ( SITH side of bridge to the upper Peninsula, the other is out on Mackinaw Island off shore in lake a Huron. Cheers and all the best mate!

@@josephhaack5711 We're in Saskatoon and have the Huskies. 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad I had a border collie named Miss Winnie the Pooch! 🐾❤️👍🏻

Thank you for your comment. I have heard of Gough, one of the better generals 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Yes indeed, as you said one of the better generals, as there were to many others ones without saying anything else. Good luck with your episodes.

Wow, thanks Martin for your lovely comment. I hope you and your daughter go on to enjoy many more videos. 👍🏻

What a great comment. You're so right about the impact on generations that would never come to be.

Dark Star King: I have heard this account before and believe it truly. Our Good Lord works in His mysterious ways. I have no doubt that He intervenes to help us in our lives!

I am a Seventh Day Adventist and know this story of Desmond Doss inimently! I know that movie made Mel Gibson rich and made Adventists feel good,but I have no doubt that God did not favor Doss ,and more paticulary as an S.D.A.!

If God Is so good and can do things like this then why dose he let kids be born with horrible illnesses and disfigurements, starve millions of people to death, let bombs kill innocent people or let bonbs be made in the first place and so on. IF God was real and loved everyone so much and had the power to effect such things then why is everyone not not happy healthy? How could you praise a god that dose more evil than good, God has killed millions If not billions of people where the devil has actually only killed 1 person. If you believe in all that crap you either have to be a complete narcissist or stupid.

It's a good read for sure. 👍🏻

I hope to God almighty you Brits don't have to deal with Putin cause 🇺🇸 will be right behind.

Thanks for the idea, my Patreons obviously liked it too. Cheers Jack 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad no worries mate. I'm more than happy to help promote your channel and help it grow. I believe everyone should look closer into history. You can learn so much from the past. Which in turn, helps us prepare for the future.

Thanks for watching David 👍🏻

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Thanks for sharing! I've been there too and experienced the exact same thing. 👍🏻

They did. None had been killed by arrows.

🤣 Nice one Harry!

Further to my previous comment my grandad spent his eighteenth birthday in the trenches

My great uncle was gassed in the trenches. His esophagus was ruined. He ate only “ liquids” like soft boiled eggs for the next 35 years until he died of esophageal cancer. As a teen I weighed more than he did. Maybe the ones who died were on occasion the lucky ones. He was such a kind man, I remember him well.

Thanks Jacqueline, I appreciate that.

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Thanks and welcome to the channel. If you haven't already, you might want to read Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards, it's a great account of the RWF. 👍🏻

Cheers!! Stay tuned, halloween is coming 👍🏻

Hey, thanks for subbing & welcome to the channel 👍🏻

Thanks, will do!

@@thehistorysquad I'm not a youtube expert but I've noticed you haven't got any 'shorts'. It could be a relatively easy way to get traffic to your channel, shorts are becoming a more popular way of consuming RU-vid for some.

@@letitgrow5060 Not for me. I would leave the “sound bites” (or screen bites) for the news programs. You take all the time you need, Kevin.

@@susanbdusan2785 I was simply suggesting attracting more views, obviously kevin is brilliant with what hes doing as mentioned in the first comment, shorts are gaining more popularity.

@@susanbdusan2785 Haha 👍🏻

Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Cheers! Sometimes it comes and goes, but I think it's here to stay for a while now. 👍🏻

@@thehistorysquad Mine can be a bit like that too, and like you I'm enjoying wearing it at the moment.

You bet!

Haha, thanks David. I hope all is well in Texas 👍🏻

Thanks as ever Marco. Once when we were on exercise one night, we thought we were being attacked by a wild dog, we threw rocks at it to keep it away but it stayed in the same spot all night watching us. In the morning though it turned out to be a tree stump 😂

I think the record was held by a sergeant in the East Surrey regiment 38 hits on a 12 inch steel plate at 300 yards...

Oh my goodness, that's something else! I've only shot mine 😜

Indeed it is 👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, we just reached it yesterday. Thanks 👍🏻