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A Place For Angels By Mike Kent
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Brave Hearts Estate In Pellston Gives Peace To Troubled Veterans
t took a motorcycle and a truck to do what 19 years as a Marine, and 18 tours in some of the hottest war zones in the world could never do. It left the body of Laszlo Szalay of Brighton in a mangled mess. The damage was massive. He couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk, he had a brain injury that left him with seizures, depressed and unable to sleep. Laszlo was near death. “I didn’t feel calm,” Szalay says. “I felt pain, I saw darkness. I was terrified.”
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Then, Szalay says he experienced a miracle. “I saw an angel that day.” The angel gave him a choice, “Do you want to stay here or go. God still has things he wants you to do.” It was a conscious decision and not one that was easy to make. “I’m glad I made the choice to stay.” For eight years Szalay saw the angel regularly, sometimes on a daily basis. The accident triggered PTSD and brought back horrible war memories. The
