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."
A
young boy pushes a wheelbarrow past he wreckage of a burnt vehicle and
burning shops following a bomb blast at Terminus market in the central
city of Jos on May 20, 2014. Twin car bombings on Tuesday killed at
least 46 in central Nigeria in the latest in a series of deadly blasts
that will stoke fears about security despite international help in the
fight against Boko Haram Islamists. AFP PHOTO / STR
HT RoP - Breaking: Bomb blast hits Taraba, 20 killed, many others injured. No fewer than twenty persons were killed in bomb blast in a local
Burkutu drinking joint in Iwari community, in Ardo-Kola local government
area of Taraba state.
An eyewitness who spoke to Blueprint through a telephone conversation said scores were also injured. “Over twenty persons were killed this evening in a local Burkutu
Joint when a teenager detonated an explosive in Burkutu joint in Iware
in Ardokola Local Government Area of the state.
The explosion in the process wounded many who are currently in a health facilities in Iware receiving treatment.” he said. He maintained that the dead bodies of those killed were deposited at the mortuary at federal medical centre, Jalingo.
He stressed that a teenager who was suspected to have detonated the
explosive device was killed by the angry youths in Iwari community. But when contacted, the spokesman of the Taraba state police command
who confirmed the incident said only 3 persons were killed while 19
others injured.
