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."
Jihad Watch : But if anyone had questioned her loyalty, he or she would have been denounced as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Iran Conducted Cyber Hacks on U.S., Recruited U.S. Air Force Officer to Steal Classified Info,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019:
WARSAW, Poland—The Trump administration announced a new
package of sanctions on Iranian entities tied to the cyber backing of
U.S. individuals, a move that comes on the heels of American authorities
indicting a U.S. Air Force officer who allegedly tried to pass
classified information to Tehran after defecting to the country.
The Department of Justice announced early Wednesday that it had
indicted Monica Elfriede Witt, also known as Fatemah Zahra, a former
active duty U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist and Special Agent,
for attempting to pass classified American information to Iran. Witt had access to secret and top-secret information, according to the indictment, unsealed early Wednesday.
Witt was deployed to several overseas location to conduct “classified
missions collecting signals intelligence,” including those of
adversaries. Witt had access to “classified information, including details of
ongoing counterintelligence operations, true names of sources, and the
identities of U.S. agents involved in the recruitment of those sources,”
according to the indictment.
“In or around January 2012 to in or around May 2015, in Iran, and
elsewhere outside the jurisdiction of any particular State or district,
defendant [Witt] did knowingly and unlawfully combine, confederate, and
agree with other persons, both known and unknown to the grand jury,
including officers of the IRGC, to knowingly and unlawfully communicate,
deliver, and transmit to a foreign government, specifically Iran, and
to that foreign government’s representatives, officers, and agents,
directly and indirectly, documents and information relating to the
national defense of the United States, with the intent and reason to
believe that the same would be used to the injury of the United States
and to the advantage of Iran, in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 794(a),” the indictment alleges.
The disclosure of this information leak was timed to coincide with an
announcement by the Treasury Department that it is sanctioning a
handful of Iranian entities for their role in cyber hacks on Americans. The sanctions hit an Iranian-based entity tied to the country’s
Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC. This includes “efforts to recruit
and collect intelligence from foreign attendees [of various
conferences], including U.S. persons, and four associated individuals,”
according to the Treasury Department.
Sanctions also were leveled on “a separate Iran-based entity and six
associated individuals involved in the targeting of current and former
U.S. government and military personnel as part of a malicious cyber
campaign to gain access to and implant malware on their computer
systems.”…
