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Rudyard Kipling

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 and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Women

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

The quote describes a grim situation where a wounded soldier, abandoned in a dangerous place, faces the threat of women who will mutilate him after death. It advises that instead of suffering such a fate, the soldier should take his own life with his rifle to die honorably and meet his god as a true warrior.

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