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."
Turkey’s shoddy builders sold a ‘piece of heaven’ that turned to hell
Thursday, February 16, 2023
BCF : Arrest warrants issued for dozens of cost-cutting construction bosses
The slick advertisement describes the luxury apartment complex as a
“piece of heaven”, taking viewers on a virtual-reality tour of manicured
gardens, generous amenities and people sunbathing beside a swimming
pool.
The Ronesans Residence, completed in 2013, was touted as the most
desirable abode in Antakya, a city in southern Turkey. According to its
promotional video, the development was a place of “flawless comfort”
built to exacting safety standards.On February 6, the 12-storey, 250-apartment block collapsed like a house of cards in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake and dozens of powerful aftershocks.
Unlike other structures that crumpled and cracked in the tremors, the Ronesans Residence appears to have fallen sideways, its façade almost intact even after it hit the ground.
An artists’ impression shows the luxury Ronesans Residence. Exacting safety standards were part of the marketing pitch
An artists’ impression shows the luxury Ronesans Residence.
Exacting safety standards were part of the marketing pitch
Exhausted rescue workers from the fire services and military comfort each other
Exhausted rescue workers from the fire services and military comfort each other
YAVUZ OZDEN/GETTY IMAGES
Mehmet Yasar Coskun, the contractor who built it, was arrested when he tried to leave Turkey for Montenegro on Friday.
Warrants for dozens of other construction bosses have been issued. “I don’t know why the building collapsed,” Coskun is reported to have told prosecutors.
Turkey’s construction sector is rarely held to the standards that it should meet. In the days since the disaster, it has emerged that the concrete in one building that collapsed in Diyarbakir, 200 miles from the epicentre of the earthquake, had been mixed with silt from a riverbed.
Supporting columns of some buildings had been removed by firms occupying the ground-floor units of multistorey blocks.
Ebru Ozturk, 47, who moved to Britain in 2000 and travelled to Kahramanmaras, one of the worst-hit towns, to look for her brother, Tevfik, said that the search for bodies was repeatedly halted to protect the vaults of a bank on the ground floor of her brother’s building. “This is more important than human life?” she asks in a video that shows the vaults moments after her dead sibling was pulled from the rubble. (Edrogan's dirty money are in the banks)
