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."
Trial Begins for 4 Behind Brutal Murder of Priest at French Church by Muslims
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Father Jacques Hamel was slain by two 19-year-old Muslim attackers
Hat tip RoP : Four people are being tried on charges of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act in connection with the murder of a Catholic priest in a Normandy church in 2016.
PARIS (AP) — Four people go on trial on Monday on charges of
conspiring to commit a terrorist act in connection with the murder of a
Catholic priest inside a Normandy church in 2016.
Father Jacques
Hamel was slain by two 19-year-old attackers as he celebrated Mass on a
quiet summer weekday in the small Normandy town of
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
The Islamic
State group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which two nuns and
an elderly couple were held hostage before the assailants slashed the
priest’s throat and seriously wounded the other man. Another nun slipped
away and raised the alarm, and police fatally shot both attackers as
they left the church. The four men going on trial are suspected of having helped or encouraged the attack. Three were present at the Paris court on Monday.
The
fourth, Rachid Kassim, a Frenchman who was a notorious Islamic State
recruiter, is being tried in absentia: he is believed to have been
killed in a drone strike in 2017 near the Iraqi city of Mosul. He is
suspected of having used social media to encourage the attack. Kassim
had already received a life sentence in absentia three years ago for
having ordered a failed attack in Paris, in which two women who pledged
allegiance to the IS group blew up a car in 2016 near Notre Dame
cathedral.
