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."
Syria: Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch says Muslims killed three Christians for refusing to convert to Islam
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
From Jihad Watch : And as those three men were confronted with the choice of Islam or
death, the Muslim neighbors of the Christians of Maaloula terrorized
them: "According to what the families who fled from Maaloula had to say,
some of their Muslim neighbours took part in the attack that devastated
this historic village where people still speak Aramaic, the language of
Jesus."
An anecdote from the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century:
Then one night, my husband came home and told me that the
padisha had sent word that we were to kill all the Christians in our
village, and that we would have to kill our neighbours. I was very
angry, and told him that I did not care who gave such orders, they were
wrong. These neighbours had always been kind to us, and if he dared to
kill them Allah would pay us out. I tried all I could to stop him, but
he killed them — killed them with his own hand. (Sir Edwin Pears, Turkey and Its People, London: Methuen and Co., 1911,p. 39)
"For Gregory III, Syria's Greek-Catholic Church has three 'true martyrs,'" by Fady Noun for Asia News, December 3:
Beirut (AsiaNews)- The Syrian Greek-Catholic Church has
three "true martyrs". They are the "three men from Maaloula who refused
to repudiate their faith," and were killed for this reason, said
Patriarch Gregory III Laham during his meeting with Pope Francis on
Sunday, this according to a press release issued by the Catholic
Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem of
the Melkites.
