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."
‘History Today’ says Muslim scholar - sort of - discovered America 500 years before Columbus
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Amid the growing wave of pessimism regarding the so called ‘official
story’ that has for centuries attempted to convince the world that
Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus was the first person to discover
the Americas, an article which claims that central Asian Muslim scholar
Abu Raihan al-Biruni discovered the continent centuries before Columbus
has come to light.
Writing in History Today,
S. Frederick Starr explained that the Muslim scholar had indeed discovered the Americas long before Columbus set sail in 1498*. According to the article, Abu Raihan al-Biruni, who was born in the year
973 in what is today known as Uzbekistan, was the first person to
officially suggest that an undiscovered landmass in the ocean between
the Europe and Asia actually existed. Although al-Biruni, who made the claim in the early eleventh century,
never himself laid eyes on the Americas, his unmatched expertise on
geography and mapping led him to the conclusion that the known world –
which spanned from the west coasts of Europe and Africa to the east
coasts of Asia – only accounted for two-fifths of the world. Al-Biruni, like his teacher, also provided an estimation of the earth’s
circumference, which happened to be a lot more accurate, skipping only
10.44 miles from modern measurements. As well as proposing that the
earth orbited the sun rather than the more commonly accepted opposite
notion of that time, in his book Codex Masudicus, Biruni also
hypothesized the existence of the Americas. Excerpt from the highly pro-Muslim World Bulletin (which nonetheless
does not usually make stuff up). But their headline “Muslim scholar
discovered America 500 years before Columbus” is misleading and will be
misinterpreted in the Islamic world. *Note that World Bulletin got the year wrong (thanks to Waffle for noticing this.)
