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."
Sarawak’s top Special Branch (SB) officer Dato Lawrence Lim Eng Liong of Kanowit.
In 1957 Lawrence who went to an English school, joined the Constabulary
while Ubong and his family had their education in a Chinese school.
Lawrence received his training in counter-insurgency warfare with the
MI5 and MI6 in London while his counterpart, the communists from the
North Kalimantan Communist Party (NKCP) which was formed in 1965.
On December 24, 1985, Lawrence’s group
of five SB officers including Supt Frederick Rengga and three
hand-picked corporals Eugene Jampi, Wilson Mergie and Ngindang prepared
for the very important mission.
Lawrence in his memoir said it was a mission cloaked in secrecy and
fraught with danger because the five policemen to travel into remote
jungle location for a rendezvous with the Ubong’s group of 30 armed
terrorists.
Frederick who rose to the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner (SAC), had played a “key” role in successfully persuading the native Iban to abandon the communist cause. In early 2018, after serving the country for close to 40 years, Frederick also passed away in Kuching—a forlorn and forgotten policeman.
Colonel Fabian Wong : "In the final analysis, we (Security Forces) were treated less than Ubong Ak Nuing who was cared and treated as a VIP guest in the CEO’s house, besides undisclosed size of land and amount of cash compensation given.
Both Lawrence and Frederick died as poor men, leaving nothing much to their descendants, except their names. Frederick refused to accept a datoship from Pahang, wheras I succeeded in getting Lawrence his datoship from Sarawak.
Being Police under the Federal Government, the two heroes had never been accorded with what were due to them, though they got their ranks as SAC, a small consolation."
No one high-lighted Ubong was the Military Commander who initiated and planned operations against SF including riverine ambushes, the deaths and maiming of the soldiers. Yet they rewarded the enemies of the nation for laying down their arms!!!
