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."
Radio Free Sarawak and Radio Free Malaysia have been jammed and their
web sites made inaccessible after coming under heavy cyberattacks in
the past few days. Clare Rewcastle-Brown, founder of the two stations, said: “There have
been attempts at broadcast interference on both radio stations by
jamming from different parts of the world over the past few days. These
have had limited success so far and we have been working on tracing the
perpetrators.”
The two stations broadcast from London on short-wave frequencies. Coordinated cyberattacks on their respective web sites were recorded
all yesterday; they “came from all over, it appears, but mainly from the
US and Malaysia, and our servers had to close down”, Rewcastle-Brown
said.The Sarawak Report web site, the first launched by Rewcastle-Brown, similarly came under attack but was holding out.
“I think that all such attacks only show the weaknesses of the people
behind them, who are evidently so dishonest and fearful that they
resort to these underhand tactics against even the slightest attempt at a
free broadcast media. The BN is throwing in very large sums of money to
suppress our voice, but all the BN is doing is demonstrating to the
world that its pretence of holding a democratic, free and fair election
is a sham,” Rewcastle-Brown said. “If these two radio stations are doing
nothing else, they are showing Malaysia’s BN coalition for what it
really is to the rest of the world.”
Podcasts of Radio Free Sarawak and Radio Free Malaysia programmes
are, however, still available at Soundcloud, the online audio database.
Go to these links below to listen. Please spread this around.
