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."
Finding all kinds of excuses to shut down alternative opinion, keep on doing it, I am sure the little remaining Christian votes will definitely go to the other side. They better get used to it-edit
KUALA LUMPUR: The Christian Federation of Malaysia has called on the Home Ministry to unconditionally withdraw the three show-cause letters it issued to the publishers of Catholic newsletter Herald. CFM said the three letters were unjustified and an infringement of the fundamental right to circulate news within one's own religious community.
“Christians believe that all of life – in its political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects – comes under the sovereignty of God.“Therefore, Christians have a duty to educate followers of the religion to discern God’s will and purpose by writing and publishing articles in church newsletters,” CFM chairman Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing said in a statement yesterday.
He added that the weekly news contained in the Herald was intended for Catholic Christians who were regular Sunday worshippers and was to help them relate their faith to wider concerns. Meanwhile, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said the Herald had previously carried non-religious articles, but had never received any letter from the ministry before.
“There were even reports about events in the rest of the world, but all this while the Government had not asked it to show cause,” he said after launching the Public Complaints Bureau's website in Putrajaya on Friday. Dompok said he had not read the piece in contention, an editorial, but was told it had asked Catholics to pray for the Permatang Pauh by-election.
The ministry's Publications and Quranic Text Control Division had earlier warned the Herald to stay away from politics. The division said the publication should limit its content to religious issues as stated in its permit, It added that further infringement could result in suspension or revocation of the weekly's licence. From the Towkay's paper.
