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Date Posted: 00:43:10 06/22/09 Mon
Author: BB
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Re: The Kyrgyz Army
In reply to: Dave in Kg. 's message, "The Kyrgyz Army" on 19:29:32 06/18/09 Thu

Good for you Dave, and for Roslan.

It's become a real problem here too, laddies that grow up without a father figure for one reason or another. So many of them turn to gangs and crime for a sense of belonging, or they become withdrawn and solitary. I've seen it in my own extended family and with laddies who were at school with my sons.

One of my sons considered becoming a primary school teacher. He did a few days work experience at his old school and got a huge amount of encouragement from the staff. Many of the children, both boys and girls, had no stable adult male presence in their lives. Primary school teaching is still a mainly female occupation. There is a drive to get a more balanced ratio.

My son chose a completely different occupation, by the way. He's the outdoors type and couldn't bear the thought of spending every working day in the same room!

Does Kyrgy have national service? I often wonder how I would have fared with that. Not very well, I think, though I might have become a bit less chaotic in going about things in general.

Enjoy the parade. How would a few lines from Rudyard Kipling's "If" go in the speech? Here it is, plenty of lines to choose from:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

BB

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Replies:

Re: The Kyrgyz Army -- Gilly, 17:51:08 06/22/09 Mon
- Re: The Kyrgyz Army -- Dave in Kg., 19:18:51 06/22/09 Mon
  - Re: The Kyrgyz Army -- Ani, 01:40:01 06/23/09 Tue