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."
Nigeria: Muslims murder 18 people in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State
Friday, July 16, 2021
Nigerian Christian Village
Jihad Watch : But, but, the white supremacist threat! The number of dead is the same, but this is a different incident from the one covered here. “Eighteen killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State by suspected Fulani Islamist militants,” Barnabas Fund, July 13, 2021:
Eighteen Nigerians were killed in Christian-majority
southern Kaduna State when suspected Fulani Islamist militants stormed
two villages in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area. Nine villagers died and a number of houses were destroyed in Makarau on Sunday, 11 July in an assault that began at around 5 p.m.
“These attacks are too much for us to bear, no one is safe in our
communities,” said a resident. “Nobody can go to his farm now.” Residents of Warkan were asleep when
a large number of gunmen swept into the village at 2 a.m. on 9 July,
killing nine villagers and razing houses. Many others were injured. “The
entire village is in confusion,” said a resident. “The destruction by
the suspected Fulani is unbelievable.”
The attacks were condemned by the Congress of Northern Nigeria Christians (CNNC),
which called on the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari and State
Governor Nasir El-Rufai to protect people from the “incessant killings”
and increased kidnappings in the region, including the 5 July abductions
of scores of pupils from Bethel Baptist High School.
In a statement, the CNNC said the growing insecurity has made it
almost impossible for farmers to go to their farms and people to go
about their daily lives thereby increasing poverty in the land and
making an already bad situation worse.
Christian congress calls for prayers for God’s intervention
“We are calling on the good people of Nigeria and the
Christian body as a whole to please rise up and pray for God’s
intervention to touch the hearts of those that have given themselves to
killings, kidnapping, rape, maiming and the destruction of properties to
have a rethink and stop.”…
