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."
UK: Leftists mark St. George’s Day with false claims that he was ‘Turkish,’ ‘Arab,’ ‘migrant’
Friday, April 29, 2022
Saint George
Robert Spencer : The fact that England’s patron saint, St George, was not an Englishman is not atypical — Ireland’s St Patrick was British and Scotland’s St Andrew, the first-called of Christ’s apostles, hailed from the Holy Land — but is seizeduponeveryyear by
left-wingers as a stick with which to beat patriots in general and
sceptics of mass migration and multiculturalism in particular.
“George was an Arab with a Turkish dad and a Syrian mother,” crowed one typical blue tick on St George’s Day 2022.
“Isn’t it brilliantly appropriate that the patron saint of England isn’t English. #Diversity?” they added.
As
mentioned above, however, George was in fact a Greek from Cappadocia,
and while Cappadocia is located in what is now Turkey, the saint was
born in 200s, around 700 years before the first Turkic invaders began to
arrive in the area from their native Central Asia — making claims he was from Turkey about as sensible as claiming a 3rd-century Native American was from the United States.
Similarly,
while St George’s mother reputedly hailed from the Roman province of
Syria Palaestina, the Arabs would not conquer this area until after the
birth of the Islamic prophet hundreds of years later, with the
contemporary population being primarily Graeco–Aramean in culture and ethnicity….
“St George is a Palestinian/Turkish immigrant who would be trafficked to Rwanda today by this British Govt,” asserted Dr
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, repeating the ahistorical claims about the
saint’s “Turkish” ethnicity and adding an equally ahistorical claim
about his immigration status.
(While the soldier may have crossed
the boundaries of the Roman Empire on military operations, there is no
reason to believe he ever tried to claim citizenship in another
jurisdiction, still less illegally migrate to one.)
“Unlike me, he
wasn’t British,” the activist continued, adding: “The English aren’t
loyal to who and what #StGeorge is but claim him as patron.”
Kevin Maguire, associate editor of the left-wing Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper, made similar claims about
St George being “dumped by the UK Conservative Government in Rwanda”
but pushed his agenda-driven description of the martyr even further,
dubiously describing him as “a migrant worker”.
“Plastic patriots,
reactionaries and racists waving flags must be proud,” he added,
jabbing at seemingly imaginary bigots unaware of St George’s supposed
“migrant worker” origins….
