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."
Malaysiakini : In recounting her brief stint as energy, science, technology,
environment and climate change minister in her soon-to-be-released book,
Yeo Bee Yin laments that Lynas’ permanent disposal facility (PDF) will
stand as a “national monument of shame”.
“First, in the name of
economic development, we would be giving 12 years of tax exemption to a
foreign company that produces a huge amount of waste to be dumped
permanently in Malaysia. “Secondly, we would be letting this
company off the hook for a commitment made in black and white. This
would send a message that a developing country’s government can be
bullied by a company from the developed world and had no choice but to
put up with it in the name of economic development.
“This is the
very reason why, from the very beginning, I pushed - unsuccessfully -
for the waste to be shipped out of the country,” she wrote in her
upcoming book ‘Unfinished Business’. Yeo pointed to the scale of the proposed PDF, which would occupy 58.25 hectares of the Bukit Ketam permanent forest reserve, about 35km from Kuantan.
The
Bukit Ketam site was eventually rejected by the Department of
Environment and a new site next to the Lynas plant in Gebeng Industrial
Estate was subsequently approved.
She
said the only saving grace was that the Pakatan Harapan administration
at the time imposed a condition that Lynas has to build its cracking and
leaching facility elsewhere.
