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 : Did you catch that? The Met calls this a sixth century Egyptian amulet
and yet keeps it in the Islamic Art department.
Islam did not arise
until the seventh century and reach its present form until the eighth
and ninth centuries. Even if the Met doesn’t know this is a tefillin,
doesn’t it have a department for Egyptian pre-Islamic art, a rich
artistic tradition? Or is the all-encompassing need to make Islam look
good so overarching that anything and everything must be appropriated as
Islamic, no matter how absurd the stretch?
“Met Museum mislabels Jewish phylacteries as 6th-century Egyptian amulet,” by Tamar Beeri, Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2020: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) seemingly
mislabeled a piece from their collection, which appears in the
photograph to be Jewish phylacteries (tefillin), as a 6th-Century amulet
from Egypt.
Tefillin is worn by observant Jews during their weekday morning
prayers and contain scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the
Torah. The one tefillin obtained by the museum is marked to have been
acquired in 1962 and is kept in the Islamic Art department.
The museum marked the prediction of the time period from which it comes as being between 500 and 100 AD.
