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."
It is across the road from the main railway station and
adjacent to a busy bus terminal that in recent weeks attracted a large
number of Islamists headed to Cairo to join the larger of two sit-in
camps by Morsi's supporters. The area of the school is also in one of
Bani Suef's main bastions of Islamists from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood
and ultraconservative Salafis.
"We
are nuns.
We rely on God and the angels to protect us," she said. "At
the end, they paraded us like prisoners of war and hurled abuse at us as
they led us from one alley to another without telling us where they
were taking us," she said. A Muslim woman who once taught at the school
spotted Manal and the two other nuns as they walked past her home,
attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
"I remembered her, her
name is Saadiyah. She offered to take us in and said she can protect us
since her son-in-law was a policeman. We accepted her offer," she said.
Two Christian women employed by the school, siblings Wardah and Bedour,
had to fight their way out of the mob, while groped, hit and insulted by
the extremists. "I looked at that and it was very nasty," said Manal.
