Afghanistan, Graveyard of Invaders

Story posted: 18. May 2011 by CPA Media

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Afghanistan, Graveyard of Invaders

 

 

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,  

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,

  An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

 

 

Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier (1892).

 

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