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The flaming sword of the Second Division Memorial — like most war memorials at the time devoted to a military entity or the dead of some locality rather than the whole of a war — was dedicated near the White House in 1936.

The gilded Statue of the Republic rose before me, set alight by the setting sun until it glowed as brightly as the angel Dumah’s flaming sword.

“And that was when it came to me like a beautiful revelation. It was an epiphany. At that moment, looking into his eyes, I knew my purpose in life. My destiny. To rid the world of you. To become God’s flaming sword.”

Then you realize that glow is a flaming sword.

Surtr’s flaming sword is huge and it burns even when it misses.