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7th Rangers: Tun Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar From Kampung Boy to Governor! By James Alexander Ritchie
 
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" ā€œWhen 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

" ā€œWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā€

ā€œIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā€
ā€œOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
ā€œThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,
for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā€
ā€œMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā€
ā€œThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

ā€œNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
ā€œIt 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."

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Tun Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar From Kampung Boy to Governor! By James Alexander Ritchie
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Tan Sri Wan Junaidi bin Tuanku Jaafar was born on February 1, 1945 in Kampung Pendam in Sadong Jaya. Coming from a family of civil servants during the British colonial era of the 1950s, Junaidiā€™s maternal uncle Wan Abu Bakar and his cousin Wan Jamaluddin were the first Asajaya Arab-Malay to join the Sarawak Constabulary.

In the old days Kampung Pendam was a sleepy hollow in the backwaters and joining the police was the last thing their family expected. Reminiscing, Wan Junaidy in his book entitled ā€œA Policemanā€ said: ā€œThe idea of searching for greener pastures in a far-off place like Kuching, was one thing but joining the least favoured government service was another.

ā€œThe peoples view was that kampung boys were to stay with her parents ...and not go looking for something new in the city.ā€ Junaidy took pride that Sekolah Menengah Kampung Pendam was among the first few schools to be established in Lower Sadong enclave. Sadly, his uncle Wan Jamaluddin who posted to Limbang police station where he was killed together with three other policemen.

All four died unsung ā€œheroesā€ and and were not awarded ā€œdecorationsā€ by the British colonial government for their gallantry in defending the small Northern Sarawak town. Wan Junaidi who described himself as young man boy ā€œwith a pale face and brown and wavy hairā€, was admitted to Standard primary at the Pendam Primary school together with his youngest aunt Sharifah Rashidah who was two years older but was promoted to Primary 2 within six months.

In fact, both he and his aunt could read and write in Jawi and had read the syair and hikayat and knew the multiplication tables by heart. In 1961, after his Standard Four exams, Junaidi continued his studies at Madrasah Melayu, Kuchingā€™s premier Malay educational institution at Jalan P Ramlee. ā€œI was still very much a kampung boy when I started my stint (in Kuching).

I was unexposed to the urban way of life and the Kuching Malays attitude. ā€œThere was prejudice towards rural people whom they called orang laut and they considered us as rustic and inferiorā€. His academic achievements continued at Madrasah Melayu where he excelled in Arithmetic, Geometry and Algebra and in 1962 he was recipient of the ā€œBest Mathematical Studentā€.

However, he left school in March 1963 to join the Public Works Department a year later to join the Sarawak Constabularyā€™s ā€œCommissionersā€™ Cadetsā€ scheme in Kuala Lumpur. After nine months of gruelling training and a study tour to Penang he returned to Sarawak eager to take on his new job as a policeman. Based at the Central police station, Junaidiā€™s first posting was to Miri before he returned to the traffic section in Kuching.

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