Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Boeing's Cover Up on Two Crashes, Lion Air and Ethiopian Air - Boeing Kept MCAS a secret to cut costs
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Boeing cutting safety corners in order to save money and not explain the MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) installation to the Max 8 clients ... How the once mighty have fallen! The United States Department of Justice has opposed a bid by families of people killed in two Boeing 737 Max crashes that alleged the government violated their legal rights when it reached a $2.5bn settlement with the planemaker last year to resolve a criminal charge.
They should have had the power to override MCAS from day one. I hope they paid dearly for that. In courts filings on Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a federal court in Texas to deny the familiesā request for a hearing. The families argued that government lawyers violated a crime-victims law by not telling them that the government was negotiating a settlement with Boeing.
They wanted a court to strike down the part of the deal that shields Boeing from criminal prosecution.The Department of Justice told the court, however, that the family members are not crime victims. Department lawyers also said the settlement included compensation above what the law required.
The settlement, reached in January 2021 near the end of former President Donald Trumpās administration, capped a 21-month government investigation into the design and development of the 737 Max following the two crashes, in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019, that killed a total of 346 people.
