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."
Malaysiakini : Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak and then defence minister
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi must be held responsible for the littoral combat ship
(LCS) project scandal, said DAP publicity secretary Teo Nie Ching.
“This
is true as a whopping RM1.02 billion was paid to mobilise the project
without any deliverables in the RM9 billion project,” she said in a
statement today. Earlier this month, the Public Accounts Committee
(PAC) revealed that the country’s largest defence procurement, worth
RM9 billion, for six LCS vessels was in shambles.
The then BN
government announced the multi-billion ringgit project in 2011 to build
six second-generation patrol vessels for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN). But the PAC’s report showed that since the project’s contract took
effect in 2013, the government has paid more than RM6 billion without
having a single vessel delivered.
It was also revealed that the
LCS was based on a model not chosen by the navy despite it being the
end-user. As such, the cabinet declassified a forensic audit report on
the project by the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance,
Procurement and Finance (JKSTUPKK) on Aug 17.
DAP publicity secretary Teo Nie Ching
Najib,
on the other hand, constantly accused the previous Harapan
administration of the delay, citing the stop-work order issued on 2018.
Zahid claimed that he had not interfered in the project. However, the JKSTUPKK report indicated that Zahid did have a hand in changing the LCS specification.
