Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After read more

Rob Helb served as an Army Air Corps gunner and lost an arm over the oil fields of Turkey. After crashing, he asked a crew member to retrieve his bloodied and severed arm so he could remove from its wrist the gold watch his father had given him.

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among
themselves.
Ojibway Tribe.

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among
themselves.
Ojibway Tribe.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our read more

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter.

Peace through strength – neutrinos through solid matter.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the read more

The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Alternative Terror
War Tanks rolled over to
Jenin and its Refugee Camp
As battlefields in a minute
Clouds of read more

Alternative Terror
War Tanks rolled over to
Jenin and its Refugee Camp
As battlefields in a minute
Clouds of black smokes belched
From the nozzle of the missiles
Turned the dwellings into debris
And lives breathe under rubble
Still desires of living
That will never be fulfilled
Sighing are heard in the air
Unseen ghosts are roaming freely
Searching their brotherhoods
Living or dead
Souls are still weeping bitterly
With sorrows that never end
In the war turned atmosphere
Flying high in the sky appeared
The hungry vultures that smell
Odors of rotten human flesh
As if the open graveyards
To wipe the terrors and even its ghosts
Out of the worldly atmosphere
Reassuring pure peace
In every people’s mind
Is’t the rebirth of terror
Or alternative terror ?
© Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy
and the big fool says to push on
singing about an incident in read more

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy
and the big fool says to push on
singing about an incident in which
marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.