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."
Sudan: Muslims burn down three churches, then burn down the temporary structures each congregation built
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Burning Church
Jihad Watch : No doubt that most learned of imams, Pope Francis, is on his way to Bout right now, so as to explain to these Muslims that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
“Church Buildings Burned Down in Southeastern Sudan,” Morning Star News, January 23, 2020: JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Temporary worship
structures in southeastern Sudan were set ablaze on Jan. 16, three
weeks after the buildings they had replaced were burned down, sources
said.
In southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile state, Islamists in Bout, Tadamon
District were suspected of burning down the structures erected after
arsonists on Dec. 28 razed the worship buildings of the Sudan Interior
Church, Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Church, according to local
news reports and a source in South Sudan close to the border area.
“This incident is true, the three churches were set on fire twice in
less than a month,” the pastor in Maban, whose name is withheld for
security reasons, told Morning Star News.
