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."
The final autopsy report of a Pakistani Hindu medical student who was
found dead under mysterious circumstances in her hostel room in
September, has revealed theshe was raped before being murdered.
The
body of the Hindu student was found on September 16 hanging from the
ceiling fan in her hostel room at the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Medical University (SMBBMU) in Larkana. She was enrolled in the
university's Bachelor of Dental Surgery programme and was a final year
student.
The autopsy report was issued on Wednesday by the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) in Larkana. The
death was determined to be caused by suffocation as asphyxial signs
caused by a ligature on the neck were seen during the autopsy, according
to Dr Amrita, the CMCH's Woman Medico-Legal Officer.
The
autopsy report said: "The ligature marks also tally with the
information. Such signs are produced either in strangulation or hanging
and are to be ascertained through circumstantial evidence as
corroborative at the crime scene by state investigation authorities."