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."
How Ijok sheds light on Harapan’s current surge By Terence Netto
Friday, November 18, 2022
Malaysiakini : COMMENT | How to explain the late-developing surge in the popularity of Pakatan Harapan? The
crowds at Harapan ceramah, the ones headlined by reformasi’s
indefatigable Pied Piper, Anwar Ibrahim, portend a strength that should
carry his coalition to Putrajaya and the premiership of the country.
The
tide in favour of Harapan seems strong enough that both goals -
Harapan’s occupation of Putrajaya and Anwar’s claim to the prime
minister’s post - could well be achieved outright, perhaps even without
negotiations with rival coalitions.
Observers say the present mood
resembles that felt at the Han Chiang private school in Ayer Itam in
Penang on the evening of March 6, 2008, at the opposition’s final
ceramah before polling two days later in GE12.
Then, at the conclusion of a mammoth rally on the ample grounds of
the school, the mood was rife with the expectation that incumbents BN
were going to be swept out of power.
Pakatan Harapan rally in Han Chiang school in 2018
Two
days later that indeed happened as a coalition of DAP, PKR and PAS,
ousted Umno-BN from power as the Penang government, with DAP winning all
19 seats it contested.
This sweep was the most prominent feature
of the opposition’s denial of Umno-BN’s supermajority in Parliament on
the back of its capture of four state governments - Penang, Selangor,
Perak and Kedah – while retaining its hold on Kelantan.
The
outcome could hardly have been predicted from the results of a
by-election in the Selangor state seat of Ijok in April 2007 caused by
the death of the BN incumbent.
