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."
Warfare : As someone who has followed and written about the 1990’s war in
Bosnia, my attention was drawn to the article entitled, “Himmler’s
Recruits” (Insight, September 2010 issue).
Although the Nazi connection
to the Bosnian Muslim 13th Waffen SS Division is well known, few people
know of the Arab world’s connection to the unit known as the Hanjar
Division. The name Hanjar is defined as “saber” from the Arabic and
sometimes spelled Handzar, was also said to mean “slit the throat.”
A Christian Activist for Israel article entitled, “The Arab/Muslim
Nazi Connection” shows a photo taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, reviewing Bosnian Muslim troops—a unit
of the Hanjar (Saber) Division of the Waffen SS which he personally
recruited for Hitler. The article reported that “in 1943 the Mufti
travelled several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he
recruited the notorious ‘Hanjar troopers,’ a special Bosnian Waffen SS
company which slaughtered 90 percent of Bosnia’s Jews and burned
countless Serbian churches and villages.” Unfortunately, the demise of
the Hanjar Division after WWII was not permanent.
In a 2008 article “Revising Nazism,” historian and Balkan expert Carl
Savich writes of the Bosnian Muslim government’s attempt to reestablish
the Nazi SS Handzar Division in 1993. Savich reported the early
planning for the Muslim unit: “The Bosnian Muslim faction had threatened
to reform and to recreate the Handzar Nazi SS Division.
In October,
1991, the Bosnian Muslim magazine Novi Vox in Sarajevo, in issue no. 3,
well over half a year before the civil war broke out in 1992, published a
front-cover illustration showing a Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS officer in
the Handzar Division stepping on the decapitated and bloody heads of
Serbian leaders, including Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
The
caption read: ‘The Handzar Division is ready!’ Another headline
announced: ‘The Fourth Reich is coming—Welcome!’ This revival of
Bosnia’s Nazi and SS genocidal past was censored, suppressed, and
covered-up in the U.S. and the Western media. But the Bosnian Serb
population got the message very clearly.”
