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."
Meanwhile in Pukistan : Man guns down 7-day-old daughter
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
Hat tip RoP : Suspect could not accept his wife giving birth to a girl.
MIANWALI:
A man pumped four bullets into the body of his seven-day-old daughter in Nurpur Mohalla of Mianwali.The accused,
Shahzeb Khan, had been married two years ago and Allah had blessed him
with a baby girl, Jannat, born seven days ago.
The baby’s
maternal grandfather, Nasrullah Khan, told the police that his
son-in-law had killed his daughter because he could not accept his wife
giving birth to a girl -- and not a boy.Shahzeb Khan is
said to have had his basic education from a 'good' school, but he was
more in sync with the “mores” of a “society” that considered it “a great
humiliation” to have a baby girl or to be “the father of a girl”. Nasrullah Khan,
the maternal grandfather of Jannat, said that he himself had become the
plaintiff in the case, and “we will never forgive our son-in-law at any
cost. We will punish him severely”.After the
postmortem at Mianwali Hospital and legal proceedings, the body of the
baby was taken by her maternal grandparents to Iskanderabad where her
funeral prayers were offered.
