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."
Speech of Hon'ble Nathuram Godse who killed the traitor and turncoat Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Monday, January 31, 2022
Hat tip from Lieutenant Colonel Rama via WhatsApp : With the permission of the Supreme Court, the speech of Hon'ble Nathuram Godse was published - Why I killed Gandhi. For 60 years it was forbidden! As you all know - on January 30, 1948 Godse shot and killed Gandhiji. He did not escape from the scene of the shooting!
He surrendered!
The lawsuit was filed against 17 others, including Godse. During the trial, a request was made to the Chief Justice so that Nathuram could speak why he killed Gandhiji. Permission was granted but subject to conditions! Your speech should not go outside the court as per the instructions of the government. Later, after a long lawsuit against this condition by his younger brother Gopal Godse, after about 60 years, permission was granted to keep his speech in public.
1. Nathuram thought - Gandhiji's policy of non-violence and Muslim appeasement is turning Hindus into cowards. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was brutally killed by Muslims in Kanpur. And Ganeshji was influenced by Gandhiji's style of thought - Gandhiji remained silent in his assassination!
2. The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre was in full swing. Gandhi was asked to file a case against General Dyer, the villain who committed this heinous murder. But Gandhi had cleanly refused!
4. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose won the Tripura session of the Congress with overwhelming support. But Gandhi's favorite candidate was Sita Ramayana! Subhash Chandra Bose was later forced to resign.
6. Gandhiji asked Hari Singh, the king of Kashmir, to resign - because Kashmir was a Muslim-majority state! He told Hari Singh to go to Kashi and do penance! But in the case of Nizam of Hyderabad is silent.
Gandhiji's policy changed, especially by religion. Later, due to the activism of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Hyderabad was retained by India.
7. At that time the killing of Hindus was going on in Pakistan. Several Hindus migrated to India to save their lives. They took refuge in a mosque in Delhi. Muslims began to oppose it. On a terrible winter night, mothers, sisters, children and the elderly were all forcibly evicted from the mosque. Gandhi remained silent!
8. Gandhi arranged to read the Qur'an and pray in the temple! Instead, he could not arrange to read the Gita in any mosque! Numerous Hindus and Brahmins protested against it - Gandhi did not bother.
10. On 14th June, 1947, there was a meeting of the All India Congress Committee in Delhi. The topic of discussion was the partition of India. This proposal was to be rejected. But strangely, Gandhi supported the proposal to divide the country. This is what he said earlier - if he wants to divide the country, he has to do it on his dead body!
Millions of Hindus have died, but he has remained silent! He never ordered the Muslims to maintain peace - as much as the advice is only on the Hindus!
11. Gandhi gave birth to "Muslim flattery" in the guise of secularism. When Muslims opposed making Hindi the state language - Gandhi admitted!
He gave a strange solution - "Hindustani" (Hindi and Urdu Khichri)! He began calling Badsha Ram, Begum Sita so to say!
12. He bowed his head in opposition to some Muslims and did not allow "Vande Mataram" to become the national anthem!
14. In 1931 the National Congress formed a committee to decide what the national flag of independent India would look like. This committee unanimously decided that there would be a flag of deep saffron cloth with a spinning wheel in the middle. But Gandhiji's insistence is to make it Tiranga! All depended on his will!
15. When the proposal to rebuild the Somnath temple was put in Parliament on the initiative of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, he opposed it. He was not even in the cabinet! But strangely enough, he started a hunger strike on January 13, 1948 - to build a mosque in Delhi at the government's expense! Why this duplicity? He may not think Hindus are Indians! Well, were you a Hindu at all?
16. It was decided by Gandhiji's mediation that - After independence, India will give 75 crore rupees to Pakistan. 20 crore was given at the beginning. The rest was 55 crores was to give later. But on October 22, 1947 Pakistan invaded Kashmir! For this betrayal of Pakistan, the Union Cabinet decided that the rest of the money would not be given to Pakistan. But he sat down with a stick! Started blackmail again - hunger strike again. In the end, the government was forced to pay the remaining 55 crore rupees to the traitorous Pakistan!
Seeing his love for Jinnah' and 'blind Pakistan love', I can say that he was in fact the father of Pakistan - not India. He speaks in support of Pakistan at every moment - no matter how unjust Pakistan's claim!
These are some statements of Nathuram Godse given in court.
I have a lot of respect for him. But no patriot can divide the country and we cannot allow any patriot to divide the country and favor a particular community. I did not kill Gandhi - I killed him – killed him. I had no choice but to assassinate Gandhiji. He was not my enemy - but his decisions were dangerous to the country. When a person has no other way - then to take the right path to do the right thing.
I was disturbed by Gandhiji's support in building the Muslim League and Pakistan. Gandhiji went on a hunger strike to get Rs 55 crore for Pakistan. The plight of the Hindus who migrated to India for persecution in Pakistan stunned me. Unbroken Hindu state was not possible for Gandhiji to bow down to the Muslim League. It was unbearable for me to see my mother split into pieces just for one of her sons. I was a foreigner in my own country.
He was abiding by all the injustices of the Muslim League. I decided that I must kill Gandhiji to save Mother India from disintegration and misery. And that is why I killed Gandhi.
I knew I would be hanged for it and I was ready for it. And if it is a crime to protect the motherland here - then I will commit such a crime again and again - every time. And until the Indus River flows into the whole of India – do not immerse my bones. At the time of my execution, I will have a saffron flag in one hand and a map of the whole of India in the other. Before I go to the gallows, I want to say the victory of Mother India.
O Mother India - I am very sorry that I have been able to serve you only this.
