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."
HT RoP : My mosque member impregnated my wife – Oyo Imam.
NEWS DIGEST – Alhaji Lukman Shittu, an Oyo-based
cleric, has alleged that one of the worshippers at the mosque he
presides over impregnated his wife. He made the allegation while testifying before a Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Shittu, who was the respondent in a divorce suit, had in his
counter-argument told the court that his wife was an adulteress and had
raised the three children in question through that. Immediately after taking the claim, the court’s president, S. M.
Akintayo, ordered the duo to go to a well-established medical centre and
carry out DNA tests of the three children to know if Shittu was their
father or not.
Akintayo ruled: “The DNA tests shall be jointly funded by Shittu and
Fisayo and the sealed result shall be sent directly by the medical
centre to the registrar of this court.” She adjourned the suit until May 2 for the presentation of the DNA test and further hearing. Earlier, Shittu submitted that his wife started riding a beautiful car soon after she parked out from his home in 2021.
