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."
The woman named Sarla stated that she and her husband had tried to go back to their house in Kashmir a few days after Jan 19, 1990. But the situation was so hostile and dangerous that they could not even stay a single night, and barely managed to escape.
Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, a movie that depicts
the atrocities and brutality inflicted on Kashmiri Hindus that had been
converted up or denied for all these years, has really pulled on the
heartstrings of all those victims who have until now, kept their past
enshrouded. Since the heartwrenching film’s release, many families of
Kashmiri Hindu victims have come forward to recount the pain, suffering,
struggle and trauma of their loved ones, who fall prey to the Islamic
terror in the valley in the 1990s.
There are many distraught testimonials that have emerged wherein the
Kashmiri Hindu victims, who were forced to flee Kashmir, have narrated
the monstrosities of the genocide. One such heartbreaking account was
shared by a first-generation Kashmiri Hindu woman victim in a programme
aired on India TV on March 14, the snippet of which was shared on
Twitter by a user named Ashish (@KashmiriRefuge).
