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."
Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months.
Sunday, February 09, 2020
Vlad Tepes : Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues.
Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because
of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of
bioterrorism.
Throw in a few Russian defectors, a few
nervy U.S. biotech companies, a deranged assassin or two, a bit of
Elvis, a couple of Satanists, a subtle hint of espionage, a big whack of
imagination, and the plot is complete, if a bit reminiscent of James
Bond. The first three died in the space of
just over a week in November. Benito Que, 52, was an expert in
infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School.
Police originally suspected that he had been beaten on Nov. 12 in a
carjacking in the medical school’s parking lot. Strangely enough,
though, his body showed no signs of a beating. Doctors then began to
suspect a stroke.
Just four days after Dr. Que fell
unconscious came the mysterious disappearance of Don Wiley, 57, one of
the foremost microbiologists in the United States. Dr. Wiley, of the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was an expert on
how the immune system responds to viral attacks such as the classic
doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
He had just bought tickets to take his
son to Graceland the following day. Police found his rental car on a
bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was later found in the
Mississippi River. Forensic experts said he may have had a dizzy spell
and have fallen off the bridge.
Just five days after that, the
world-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector Valdimir
Pasechnik, 64, fell dead. The pathologist who did the autopsy, and who
also happened to be associated with Britain’s spy agency, concluded he
died of a stroke. Dr. Pasechnik, who defected to the
United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge role in Russian biowarfare and
helped to figure out how to modify cruise missiles to deliver the agents
of mass biological destruction.
The next two deaths came four days apart
in December. Robert Schwartz, 57, was stabbed and slashed with what
police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His
daughter, who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several
of her fellow pagans have been charged.Dr. Schwartz was an expert in DNA
sequencing and pathogenic micro-organisms, who worked at the Center for
Innovative Technology in Herndon, Va.
Four days later, Nguyen Van Set, 44, died at
work in Geelong, Australia, in a laboratory accident. He entered an
airlocked storage lab and died from exposure to nitrogen. Other
scientists at the animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame
for discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified
to affect smallpox. […]
(There were a lot more biologists with connections to weapons
research or potential for weapons research that died mysteriously around
that time. If memory serves, it was the late 90s.)
