Meet the Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar

During the meal I feel a hand on my shoulder, and a knight whose name I do not catch leans in and whispers conspiratorially, “We were there”—I assume he means the Holy Land—“for 160 years, and they tried to kick us out but we survived.”

“Don’t forget, we were God’s shock troops.”

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