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."
Egypt: Islamic Mufti Sentences Man to Death for Murder of Priest
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Father Arsanios Wadid, 56
A criminal court in Alexandria, Egypt, sentenced
a man to death on Wednesday after finding him guilty of murdering a
Coptic Christian priest in the Mediterranean port city in April,
Africanews reported on Thursday.
The unidentified man stabbed Coptic
Christian Priest Arsanios Wadid, 56, to death while Wadid accompanied
young people from his parish along the Sidi Bishr district of the
Alexandria Corniche, a seaside promenade, on April 7.
Passersby
immobilized the killer shortly after witnessing his stabbing of Wadid
and handed him over to local police.
Wadid’s official title was the “Priest of the Church of the Virgin Mary and Mar Boulos.” He presided
over his parish in the Karmouz neighborhood of Alexandria’s Meharam Bek
district, according to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
“The Alexandria Criminal Court submitted to the Mufti of the Republic
the name of the convicted man who was found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter [of Wadid] after a psychological expert declared him
‘responsible for his acts’, according to the legal procedure,”
Africanews relayed on May 19.
