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."
Mother of four stabbed to death while her family were at a funeral ‘may have been murdered in Islamic honour killing’
Friday, May 27, 2016
A mother-of-four who was killed in her home as she looked after her children may have been killed in an Islamic honour attack, it has been claimed.
Saima Khan, 34, was found slumped in a pool of blood in the hallway of her semi-detached home while her children slept upstairs.Her distraught younger sister Sabah was said to have tried in vain to save her life by removing a shard of glass lodged in her throat before paramedics could reach the scene.
The care worker is believed to have been attacked as she returned home from a late shift while her sister was upstairs babysitting her children aged between one and seven.
The rest of the family were attending a late night funeral of an elderly aunt at the local mosque.
Neighbours and relatives said the three-bedroom home in Luton may have been targeted by raiders, who expected it to be empty, on the hunt for valuable gold jewellery.
However, detectives are said to be keeping an open mind as to the motive of the murder and have not ruled out the possibility that it was a so-called ‘honour killing’.
Frightened witnesses heard family members of the carer in the road screaming for help at about 11.30pm before paramedics arrived – and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
