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."
31 killed, several arrested: How Iran's protests continue to spread a week after woman's death in hijab arrest
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Women hold up drawings of Iranian Mahsa Amini as they shout slogans
during a protest against her death, outside Iran's general consulate in
Istanbul. AP
First Post : The protests over the death of an Iranian woman are the biggest in the Islamic Republic since the November 2019 unrest over fuel price rises, and are marked this time by the presence of large numbers of women.
Paris: Iran has been rocked by a week of protests
over the death last week of a young woman, who was arrested by the
feared morality police for allegedly wearing the Islamic headscarf in an
“improper” way. Some women demonstrators have defiantly taken off their hijabs and thrown them on bonfires or symbolically cut their hair before cheering crowds.
The protests are the biggest in the Islamic Republic since the
November 2019 unrest over fuel price rises, and are marked this time by
the presence of large numbers of women. Here is how the events unfolded:
Her brother Kiaresh tells the Iran Wire news website that
while he was waiting outside the police station for her to be released
an ambulance drove past taking her to hospital. He was told that she had a heart attack and a brain seizure and was now in a coma. Tehran police say she “suddenly suffered a heart problem” and release
CCTV footage appearing to show her collapsing in the police station.
She is declared dead on 16 September by state television after having spent three days in a coma. Activists say she suffered a fatal blow to the head, a claim denied by officials. President Ebrahim Raisi orders an inquiry. Shortly after her death is announced, a crowd gathers outside the Kasra hospital in central Tehran.
In her hometown of Saghez, where her body is laid to rest on 17
September, some residents hurl stones at the governor’s office and chant
anti-regime slogans, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. The head of Tehran’s medical examiner’s office tells state television
that investigations into the cause of death will take up to three weeks
to complete.