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."
Germany: Muslim who stabbed four screamed “Infidel, you must die” as well as “Allahu akbar”
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
“Koehler said investigators will follow up on statements the suspect
made in questioning to determine whether he might have converted to
Islam.” Yes, clearly he converted to Methodism.
“Officials: Germany stabbing suspect mentally unstable,” by Matthias Schrader and Geir Moulson, Associated Press, May 10, 2016: GRAFING, Germany (AP) — A German man yelled “infidel, you
must die” and “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed one person to death and
wounded three others at a Bavarian train station Tuesday, but
authorities said they’ve found no links to any Islamic extremist
network.
The 27-year-old, who had previously been in psychiatric care, made a
“rather confused impression” as he was questioned by investigators,
authorities said. He had a 10-centimeter (4-inch) survival knife tucked into his belt
when he was caught at about 5 a.m. near the scene of the attack by the
Grafing Bahnhof station, near Munich, they said. One man died in a hospital after the apparently random attack and three other men were being treated for their wounds.
The suspect’s name wasn’t released in line with German privacy laws,
but authorities said he is a German citizen with a traditional German
name. The man, a former carpenter who had been unemployed for two years,
admitted to the crime, said Ken Heidenreich, spokesman for the Munich
prosecutor’s office in charge of the case.
But Heidenreich said that there were questions about whether the man
can be held criminally responsible and that authorities were evaluating
whether he should be taken to a mental hospital. Senior police official Lothar Koehler said the suspect told them he
had been taking drugs, and that around the time of the attack he took
his shoes off because “he felt bugs on his feet that had caused blisters
and were generating intense heat.”
Koehler added it wasn’t immediately clear whether the suspect was
under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack, and authorities
have found no record of any previous narcotics cases against him. A woman reported hearing the words “infidel, you must die” as the
attack began, and the suspect himself admitted yelling “Allahu akbar,”
Arabic for “God is great,” senior police official Guenther Gietl said.