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."
China’s Occupying Boats Dumping Sewage On Philippine Reefs
Sunday, July 25, 2021
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague invalidated China’s claims that it owns almost all of the South China Sea. The tribunal also unanimously upheld the Philippines’ sovereign rights to disputed reefs and islands close to its shorelines.
However, that has not stopped China from using thousands of fishing boats to push Philippine boats away from these contested areas. These occupying Chinese boats are now causing a serious threat to marine life in the region. Here are the details:
The Associated Press reports that sewage from hundreds of stationary Chinese boats is causing algae blooms that have damaged coral reefs and threatened fish stocks in an unfolding environmental disaster.
Western analysts say the boats are part of a huge Chinese maritime militia that use sheer force of numbers to push other nations out of contested areas in the South China Sea.
Satellite images over the last five years show how human sewage and wastewater have accumulated around these stationary flotillas, causing damaging algae blooms which are destroying reefs that are vital for the reproduction of fish stocks.
Analysts of Simularity Inc, a company that specializes in satellite imagery analysis, spoke on Monday, July 12, at a Philippine online news forum on China’s actions in the South China Sea — a sea that China claims to be almost entirely its own.
The analysts showed satellite images of at least 236 ships anchored at the Union Banks atoll on June 17 alone. The images also showed large blooms of algae spreading out around the cluster of ships.
The analysts warned that schools of fish, including migratory tuna, breed in the reefs that are being damaged and the sewage could cause fish stocks to considerably decline in an offshore area that is a key regional food source.
