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."
Netflix documentary 'Downfall: The Case Against Boeing' is a deadly tale of greed By Dean Obeidallah, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Boeing reached a settlement with the DOJ that did not deliver anything close to accountability. On Oct. 29, 2018, 13 minutes after Lion Air Flight 610
departed Jakarta, Indonesia, the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft dove nose down
into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.
According to the
flight’s data recorder, the plane had inexplicably moved up and down
over 24 times before finally diving at full speed into the sea. Dennis
Muilenburg, then the CEO of Boeing, appeared on the Fox Business a month
later and said, “The bottom line here is the 737 MAX is safe and safety
is a core value for us at Boeing.”
But in March 2019, it happened again. Another Boeing 737 MAX
crashed, killing the 157 people on board, who hailed from 35 nations.
In that crash, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 took off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and, six minutes after take-off, dove into a field flying at full speed.
These
two crashes of the same model Boeing aircraft are just the beginning of
a tale of corporate greed and our two-tiered justice system captured in
the riveting new Netflix documentary “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” directed by the award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy.
As
we learn in the film, both crashes were caused by a faulty sensor on
the aircraft triggering the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation
System (MCAS), aircraft software that Boeing installed to help pilots
keep the aircraft from stalling. However, Boeing didn’t tell airlines or
pilots about MCAS.
In fact, MCAS was not even mentioned
in the pilot manual. The faulty sensors wrongly alerted the MCAS system
that the planes were in danger of stalling, causing the nose of the
aircraft to point downward and leaving the pilots powerless to stop the
dive.
