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."
German comedian under investigation for insulting Turkish leader vows not to insult Hitler
Friday, May 13, 2016
German comedian Jan Böhmermann has returned to television after a pause following a row over a poem insulting Turkey's president. The German parliament is debating the law that has the satirist under investigation.
The German comedian at the center of a free-speech row over a crude poem
about Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to television
late Thursday after a pause of several weeks.
He said he would no longer
make jokes about Adolf Hitler because it could be construed as
disturbing the dead. Jan Böhmermann,
the front man of the comedy show "Neo Magazin Royale," is under
investigation for reading a poem on television in late March accusing
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of bestiality and pedophilia.
The case has turned into a
domestic and diplomatic headache
for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who controversially gave the green light
to prosecutors to investigate the comedian after Erdogan's lawyers filed
a complaint under an archaic German law proscribing defamation of
foreign leaders. Even before reading the poem, Böhmermann admitted it tested the limits
of freedom of speech.
The poem was a sharp piece of satire aimed at a
Turkish leader who has clamped down on all types of dissent and filed
nearly 2,000 defamation complaints against critics in Turkey. Read it all here......................
