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."
Turkey: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” disrupt Christian funeral, desecrate Christian graves
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Catholic cemetery Trabzon.
Jihad Watch : “Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are ruthless to unbelievers, merciful to one another.” (Qur’an 48:29) “O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness.” (Qur’an 9:123) “Attacks on Christian cemeteries alarm Turkey’s Christians,” by Uzay Bulut, Ahval, March 14 2020:
Attacks on Christian cemeteries in Turkey have deeply shaken the embattled community in recent months. Twenty of the 72 gravestones in the Ortaköy Christian Cemetery in Ankara were destroyed on Feb. 14, according to news reports. Six people who carried out the attacks were briefly detained and then released.
“These attacks against cemeteries are making the Christian community
across Turkey feel incredibly sad and desperate,” Ankara-based pastor
İhsan Özbek told Ahval. “Nobody can watch over the graves of their loved
ones like a guard.”
One of the destroyed graves belonged to Olga Komshdoğan’s son. “My son lies here,” Komshdoğan told the Sözcü newspaper.
“He died last year. He was 17-years-old. Children his age came here and
destroyed his grave. What type of conscience can accept this?” Komshdoğan said it was not the first attack on the cemetery. “They hid the attack on the graves from us. We learned of it through a
stonemason. I’m hurting inside so much. If my son were alive, he would
not do such a thing. They have carried out similar attacks before, and
no one was caught. I want those who attacked the graveyard to be
punished. We will sue for material and moral damages,” she said.
Another attack was carried out on a grave in the cemetery of the
Santa Maria Catholic Church in Trabzon, northeast Turkey, said the news website, Hristiyan Haber. Zehra Çolak lost her life on Jan. 17 and was buried the next day in
the cemetery of the Aya Filbo (Arafilboyu) neighbourhood, 500 m from the
church. A wooden cross was temporarily placed at the head of the grave.
According to those who attended the funeral, a small group tried to disrupt the ceremony, shouting Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest).
Veysel Çolak visited his wife’s grave on Feb. 14 and said the wooden cross was broken and had been burned near the grave. Çolak reported the incident to the police and said that even while
his wife’s grave was being dug, a man who covered his face tried to
steal the cross. When children playing in the cemetery reacted angrily,
the man got his dog to attack the children. Trabzon police said they would launch an investigation into the
incident and the provincial governor’s office said the burnt cross would
be replaced with a new one. The governor’s office could not bring
itself to refer to the cross as such and called it a “grave marker”,
according to Hristiyan Haber.
“The environment of hate in Turkey is the reason for these attacks,”
journalist Seyfi Genç, who reported on the attack on Çolak’s grave for
Hristiyan Haber, told Ahval. “But this hateful environment did not emerge out of nowhere. The
seeds of this hatred are spread, beginning at primary schools, through
books printed by the Ministry of National Education portraying
Christians as enemies and traitors. The indoctrination continues through
newspapers and television channels in line with state policies. And of
course, the sermons at mosques and talk at coffee houses further stir up
this hatred. “And even more disturbing is the fact that the perpetrators are
either not caught, or not brought to account even when they are caught,”
said Genç.
Trabzon’s Santa Maria Catholic Church was where a Roman Catholic
priest, Andrea Santoro, was murdered in 2006 by Oğuzhan Akdin, who was
16 at the time. Ten years later, the killer was released on probation.
Akdin said he was treated “like a king” while in the prison. Genç said education was needed to help reduce attacks and hate speech targeting Christians in Turkey.
“A comprehensive campaign of education regarding hate speech should be launched to raise awareness of the problem,” he said….