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."
Faizal has got it all wrong on Hadi, rebuts Kit Siang
Friday, May 26, 2023
Malaysiakini : DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has called out Ahmad Faizal Azumu’s recent
defence of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s racial rhetoric.
Faizal (above, right),
who is the Bersatu deputy president, previously said he is sure Hadi
had his reasons for making remarks alleged to be stirring racial unrest. “Faizal
is very wrong. Hadi has no reasons and that is why he has not been able
to substantiate his seven wild and preposterous allegations against DAP
and me for as long as six months,” Lim said in a statement today.
He
questioned whether any “responsible, honest and respected” Islamic
leader would have propagated allegations without evidence for as long as
six months. Lim (above) also asked how can he be “anti-Malay,
anti-Islam, anti-royalty, a communist and promoting Islamophobia” when
it was Hadi and other PAS leaders who approached him in 2014 to suggest
that Pakatan Rakyat at the time replace Anwar Ibrahim with Tengku
Razaleigh Hamzah as the prime minister-designate of the coalition.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang
He
also said Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin had met him in 2016 asking
for DAP’s support for the latter to become prime minister, though Lim
said he declined the request as DAP was committed to Anwar as its prime
ministerial candidate. “Did I become anti-Malay, anti-Islam,
anti-royalty, communist and promoting Islamophobia because DAP and I did
not agree in 2014 that Hadi be the prime minister or in 2016 that
Muhyiddin be the prime minister?” he asked.
Both Hadi and Muhyiddin have not denied that they had such meetings with him even though he has brought it up before, he noted.
