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 : 19 SLAIN IN SEDER HORROR Passover bombing leaves 120 in Israel hurt.
A Palestinian suicide bomber burst into a crowded hotel banquet room
last night and turned a Passover Seder into a slaughterhouse - killing
19 Israelis and wounding more than 120. The powerful explosion gutted
the Park Hotel in the northern coastal resort town of Netanya and dealt a
catastrophic blow to the Bush administration's Mideast peace push.
"What we had tonight was a Passover massacre," said Israeli government
spokesman Gideon Meir. "There is no limit to Palestinian barbarism.
" Blast survivors said the bomber struck without warning. "Suddenly, it
was hell," survivor Nechama Donenhirsch said from her hospital bed. "My
daughter, 16 years old, held me and said to me to calm me, 'You are
alive. I'm alive. Don't worry, we are alive.
' " The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the
deadly attack, calling it a message to the Arab summit in Beirut
considering a Saudi plan for peace with Israel. "Our Palestinian
people's option is resistance and resistance only," spokesman Usama
Hamdan said. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's aides blamed
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for failing to crack down on extremists
and were reportedly preparing a massive retaliatory attack. "The king
of lies is facing the moment of truth," senior aide Raanan Gissin said
of Arafat, whose Palestinian Authority condemned the attack. Ranks among
deadliest It was one of the worst suicide bombings in the past 18
months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. The deadliest was an attack in
June outside a Tel Aviv disco that left 21 dead. The bomb went off about
7:30 p.
m., after Abdel-Basset Odeh sneaked past the hotel security guard with
explosives in his bag. He quickly made his way to the mirror-lined
ballroom, where about 250 guests wearing their holiday best were
mingling. Witnesses said a reception desk clerk spotted Odeh, a member
of Hamas' military wing Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades. But before she
could call for help, Odeh detonated the bomb. The explosion tore through
the ground floor of the hotel, smashing the mirrors, blowing out walls,
overturning tables and chairs, and plunging the banquet hall into
darkness. Donenhirsch's son Itai said the family sat just 3 or 4 yards
from where the bomber blew himself up."I felt shock waves and was
pushed under the table and everything blacked out," he said. Bleeding
and dazed survivors staggered out into the lobby, some of them dragging
moaning victims across a marble floor streaked with blood and littered
with body parts and crushed matzo. Donenhirsch, 52, said she saw a
little girl lying dead on the ground with her eyes wide open. "We ran . .
. over dead people, all in pieces," Donenhirsch said. "There was the
smell of smoke and dust in my mouth and a ringing in my ears.
