Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
In not so great britain, At Speaker’s Corner, It’s Time to Show Muslims Some Respect
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Jihad Watch : When I first went to London, decades ago, I was shown around by an
English friend who wanted me to observe the Parliament in session, to
see justice being administered at a criminal trial at the Old Bailey, to
visit the Tower of London, and most of all, he wanted to show me that
living example of free unfettered speech, Speaker’s Corner at Hyde Park,
celebrated all over the world as a place where anyone could stand up
and speak his piece, from an articulate political orator to an
end-of-the-world-is-coming crank, without fear of being shut down either
by the government, or by private parties.
Speaker’s Corner was formally
recognized as the place for such free speech by an act of Parliament in
1872. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Communists and
capitalists, holy-rollers and atheists, all were welcome to speak their
peace. It was give-and-take, speech and counter-speech,
let-me-talk-and-then-you’ll-have-your-turn, on every conceivable topic.
Foreign visitors, especially those from countries where speech was
controlled by the government, were much impressed.
It is now clear that Speaker’s Corner is no longer quite that bastion
of free speech that it once was. In the interest of what is comically
called “social cohesion,” speeches that just might anger one group —
Muslims — are no longer always permitted. Tommy Robinson has been forced
by the police to leave Speaker’s Corner on several occasions —
sometimes before he had a chance even to begin to talk. On March
18, before he spoke, Muslims deliberately provoked scuffles — some say
it was a mini-riot — but fortunately, on this occasion, Robinson managed
to read in its entirety a speech written by the Austrian Martin
Sellner, an anti-Islam activist whom the British authorities just
recently prevented from entering the United Kingdom.
And that speech had
another consequence: when Lutz Bachmann, the leader of Pegida, a German
organization whose members are alarmed about the influx of millions of
Muslims into Germany (and therefore “right-wing”), arrived at Heathrow
in mid-March, the police found a copy of Sellner’s speech in Bachmann’s
luggage — he had been planning to read it at Speaker’s Corner. They
promptly impounded it and refused entry to Bachmann, just as they had to
Sellner before him, so that the Pegida founder was forced to return to
Germany.
