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."
Noakhali Riots, October 10, 1946: Organized Muslim mobs attacked, raped and slaughtered thousands of Hindu Bengalis By Ashlyn Davis
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Jihad Watch : October 10, 1946 is a date to which history has not done justice.
This is a date that should have been etched into the global memory as
the date of one of the greatest massacres of modern times. Instead, the
record of this massacre has been largely erased, in an institutionalized
manner, from our collective memories. In a bloodbath masterminded by
Muslim leader Gholam Sarwar Hossaini in Noakhali of present-day
Bangladesh, official estimates confirm that at least 5,000 Hindus were
butchered.
But of course, the numbers could be far higher and
deliberately suppressed so as not to give a bad name to the
perpetrators: the Muslims of undivided India, intoxicated with religious
fanaticism, desperate for an Islamic state. Thousands of Hindu men and
women were forcibly converted to Islam, but not before being forced to
provide a declaration that they were willingly embracing the one true
religion.
