Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Malaysia's history is stagnating.Because the government must reserve and preserve the political privilege of national development for itself, in order to legitimate the centrality of Malay-ness which, it is so often claimed, is paramount to the ethnic harmony and the stability of the nation. Forget the pre-Islamic Malays, forget Kedah, forget the distinctions between Javanese, Sumatrans, Chinese, Indian and Arab Peranakans, Minangkabaus and Bugis, but for godās sake, remember Malay-ness, remember May Thirteenth. History and its silences have become a tool of legitimacy. From the 'Other Malaysia' by Rachel Leow There was another Army General at that time, a subaltern during WW2, a member of Force 136, who landed in Malaya from Ceylon, he was captured by the Japanese, turned and started working for the Japanese. He did become a 4 star General and Chief of the Armed Forces. He wrote a book. Would anyone call him a collaborator? After the war, his Kingās Commission was retracted and when he applied to join the Malayan Army he was only given High Commissionerās Commission which meant he was inferior to a British officer with a Kingās Commission.
He and his group were captured and after 10 months, they āconvincedā their captors that they hated their British colonial masters and wanted to work with the Japanese for the āgreater benefitā of Malaya and Asia. Why had Capt Watanabe, Sgt-Major Shikata and Sgt Shindo remained unconvinced that they had been deceived, when he met them 30 years later? Did not the British despise him? Why is that guy not an issue? So the great Zam who was never shot at, suddenly calling these slain heroes, "Communists", are they so short of issues? "The ruckus over a monument for slain Second World War heroes in Nilai, Negri Sembilan was a racially-charged and calculated diversion by the ruling party from problems it is currently facing. From Lim Guan Eng. Subscription required for Malaysiakini. Here are some more exploits of the so called "Communists". FORCE 136 Force 136, created on March 16th 1944 by Special Operation Executive, was a British paramilitary organization set up in India and Ceylon, F136 composed of multi-National Allied military personnal working behind enemy lines. It`s objectives were to gather important information on enemy movement and to organize local underground resistance groups to disrupt enemy communication and supply lines. The role and duties of this unit were similar to previous SOE operation in Europe against the Germans. S.O.E./Force 136, composed of personnal from Allied / Resistance Forces and included Chinese Canadians who were trained and led by British commanders in India and Ceylon and operated in Burma and Malaya. Another group of Chinese was known as āOperation Oblivionā in the S.O.E. organization, they were stationed in Australia and operated in Sarawak (Area North of Borneo). The Chinese Canadians were recruited for these missions, because they could speak and write Chinese as well as English and could blend in with the local inhabitants who were mostly Chinese origin. Of the 350 SOE personnel dropped into Malaya between June and August 1945 , 14 would be Canadian Chinese . Henry Fung Selangor/Kuala Lumpur 22 June 1945 Bing Lee " July 1945 Ted Wong " July 1945 Bob Lew " July 1945 Ernie Louie " 5 August 1945 George Chin Kuala Lumpur July/August 1945? Victor Louie Kuala Pilah Tampin 14 July 1945 Charlie Chung Alor Setar, Kedah Perlis 14 July 1945 Harry Ho " 14 July 1945 Billy K. Lee Johore 24 August 1945 FORCE 136 IN MALAYA - OPERATION TIDEWAY (GREEN) - ON 31 August, John Davisand Broadhurst moved into Kuala Lumpur to prevent further incidents. They established themselves in a Chinese house overlooking the race track where the guerrillas were encamped; they were thus able to keep watch over both the former enemy and the MPAJA allies. Ugly situations developed: the guerrillas were hard to disband, and the Japanese refused to recognize the British connection with the guerrillas.
Instructions had come from headquarters not to jeopardize the lives of prisoners by any kind of confrontation with the Japanese. Some 1,300 internees were located by the teams in a camp near Kachau in Selangor; wireless contact was immediately made with headquarters advising the number and location of this group. Since nothing further could be done in Kuala Lumpur, Davis and Broadhurst set out for Morib Beach for Operation Zipper. Continued here......
