Monday, May 19, 2008

Etched onto to the wall of a Sentry Box in Gibraltar

God and the soldier all men adore
In times of danger and not before,
When the danger is passed and all things righted,
God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted.

Unsigned, an unknown soldier.

They protect the country when they are handed a rifle and told "Go
fight the enemy"
The country betrays them when it hands them a pencil and says "Now go and fight the bureaucracy"

Extracts from the TIME Magazine, May 26, 2008
Essay by Nancy Gibbs

Brig Lakshman Singh, VSM (Retd)
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