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."
The Real Reason This Texas Man Killed His Daughters
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Front Page : It was back on New Yearās Day 2008 that Yaser Said brutally murdered
his two daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, in Irving, Texas. On
Tuesday, he was finally convicted of
capital murder and received an automatic life sentence.
But throughout
the trial and all the coverage it received, it was clear that virtually
no one is willing to tell the truth about why Said killed his daughters,
or to face the unpleasant reality that murders of this kind could quite
easily happen again in America.
According to Fox News, prosecutor Lauren Black said at
the trial that Said was āobsessed with possession and control.ā No
doubt he was. Fox also tells us that āin a letter written to the judge,
Said wrote that he was not happy with his daughtersā ādating activityā
but he denied killing them.ā
Also, āin a Dec. 21, 2007, email that was
brought into evidence, Amina Said told a teacher that she and her sister
planned to run away. She said they didnāt want to live by the culture
of their father, who was born in Egypt, nor did they want arranged
marriages, as he planned. Her father, she said, had āmade our lives a
nightmare.
He will, without any drama nor doubt, kill us,ā the email
read.ā So the picture was painted of a hyper-possessive and controlling
father who disliked his daughters dating, as he had arranged marriages
for them, and who had apparently actively threatened them. And all this
had to do with Yaser Saidās Egyptian culture.
Thatās all true, but it isnāt the whole truth. Also incomplete and misleading was a New York Post article
from August 1, when the trial was about to begin, which reported that
āfriends and family said Said was unhappy that his teenage daughters
were dating.ā Dallasā WFAA likewise
missed the mark when it reported that āpolice believed he became
jealous and obsessed because the girls both dated American boys.ā