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."
Malaysiakini : Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow has asked the MACC to reveal the
number of corruption-related arrests and convictions involving the
state's civil servants since 2019.
This came after MACC chief
commissioner Azam Baki's remark yesterday that cases of bribery, abuse
of power, and making false claims among civil servants in Penang are worrying. Azam did not provide a breakdown but said that 919 complaints on the transgressions were received from 2019 until now.
Responding
to the remark, Chow in a statement today said that while Penang
welcomes the MACC's investigations against corruption in the name of
good governance, accountability, and transparency, the commission
should, at the same time, reveal details of the purported crimes.
Headhunter : The MACC should stay out of politics. There is no faster way to discredit the agency than to play partition politics. The image of the MACC chief himself is not exactly 'clean as a whistle' as an anti-corruption entity should be.
GrayGoose8208 : Najib and UMNO triumph all corruption combined nationally yet MACC was slow to act and continued to be used as a political pawn in our beloved country. Seriously, Malay friends, how can we allow this abuse to continue? We should all be ashamed being Malaysians if this rot is not stopped.
