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."
HT RoP - Austria: Afghan raped 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee girl ā and remains at large for now!
A Ukrainian refugee girl in the Upper Austrian
town of Weyer, district of Steyr-Land, was apparently raped by an asylum
seeker. As first reported by the newspaper āKroneā, the alleged
perpetrator, a 19-year-old Afghan, allegedly dragged the slightly
intoxicated 15-year-old girl to a railway embankment that was difficult
to see and forced her to have sexual intercourse there. Shockingly, the
investigation into the crime, which took place late on Wednesday
evening, is āin full swingā, according to the police ā but the urgent
suspect is to remain at large at least until the first results of the
investigation are available on Monday.
The young Ukrainian woman, who suffered injuries to her neck and
limbs, confided to her brother the next day, whereupon the family filed a
complaint. The preliminary arrest of the suspect by the Weyer police
was initially cancelled by the responsible public prosecutorās office
due to a lack of current investigation results. Julia Rauscher,
spokesperson for the Steyr public prosecutorās office, said that they
had only been informed verbally about the accusations, and that written
results of the investigation were still pending. A medical examination
of the girl, the diagnosis of which is expected at the beginning of next
week, should provide further information about the course of events.
The complainant had only recently fled to Austria with her mother and
two siblings to escape the war in Ukraine.
On Thursday, there was speculation about the transfer of the
suspected Afghan asylum seeker to another temporary accommodation.
According to the āKroneā, the authorised executive bodies had contacted
the province of Upper Austria immediately after the incident and the
initiation of the police investigation with the request to relocate him.
On Saturday morning, Rauscher confirmed that a prohibition of approach
and entry was in the offing, but that it was up to the competent police
authority to decide.
