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."
King Charles’ Easter Message Accelerates Britain’s Fall
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
The Spectator : The King’s anti-Christian statement and mass arrests for those voicing unfashionable opinions are ugly signs of Britain’s rapid decline.
“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” - William Shakespeare, King Lear
Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary
of the Shot Heard Round the World.
King Charles BELITTLES Christianity!
This was the first musket shot of
the American Revolution, fired across the old North Bridge near
Lexington. No one knows who shot first, the British regiment on one side
of the bridge or the Minute Men on the other. But everyone knows what
came of it — the birth of a great nation and the perseverance of
another.
Today, America is still rising after twice this century
rejecting malevolent suicidal leadership. While Great Britain embraced
it and is thus collapsing fast. But there is a difference to the current UK ruling Liberal Party — and Christians are getting the worst of it.
The tragedy affects not only the island’s population but all people
like me who revere the country’s history and literature dating back a
thousand years before the United States existed, indeed leading to its
foundation. I’ll always have indelible mental images and lines from
British fact and fiction:
King Arthur rousing his Knights of the Round Table (6th Century).
Beowulf swimming deep into the lair of Grendel’s Hag mother
(8th Century). King Alfred hiding in the swamp from the savage Danes yet
dreaming of uniting England as a Christian nation (878 AD). King Henry
II calling for the murder of Thomas Beckett (1170) — “Will no one rid me
of this turbulent priest?”
King John either signing the actual Magna
Carta (1215) or cursing the legendary Robin Hood. King Henry V at the
Battle of Agincourt or Shakespeare’s Henry V at Agincourt — “And
gentlemen in England now a-bed/Shall think themselves accursed they were
not here/And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks/That fought
with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
The present King of England, Charles III, had a decidedly less saintly message
this past Easter, one as far as possible from Alfred’s unifying
Christian vision: “On Maundy (Holy) Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the
feet of many of those who would abandon Him,” Charles wrote. “His
humble action was a token of His love that knew no bound or boundaries
and is central to Christian belief.… The love He showed when He walked
the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and
those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious
traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.”
