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."
Navy medic shoots 2 US sailors; is stopped, killed on base
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Navy medic shot and wounded two U.S. sailors
at a military facility Tuesday, then fled to a nearby Army base where
security forces shot and killed him, police and Navy officials said.
Authorities
said they had yet to determine what drove 38-year-old Fantahun Girma
Woldesenbet (Is that even an American name?) to open fire at the facility, located in an office park in
Frederick, Maryland.“We’re still trying to sort through stacks of
paper ... to figure out exactly what the motive would be,” said
Frederick Police Lt. Andrew Alcorn.
Woldesenbet shot the sailors
with a rifle inside the facility at the Riverside Tech Park on Tuesday
morning, causing people inside to flee, said Frederick Police Chief
Jason Lando.
Woldesenbet, a Navy medic assigned to Fort Detrick
but who lived in town, then drove to the base, where gate guards who had
been given advance notice told him to pull over for a search, said
Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley. But Woldesenbet immediately sped off,
making it about a half-mile into the installation before he was stopped
at a parking lot by the base's police force. When he pulled out a
weapon, the police shot and killed him, Talley said.
The two
sailors, who Talley said were assigned to Fort Detrick, were airlifted
to a hospital. Police said one victim is in critical but stable
condition, and the other is in serious condition but expected to be
released Wednesday. Talley said investigators will determine as much as they can, including why the suspect went back to the base.
“(I) don’t know his mental status at the time, and we’re certainly going to find all that out,” he said.
