Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Yeoman service rendered by security forces

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What of our security forces? A majority of them are young but still carry out their duties with much fortitude, calm, smiling faces and eagerness to help in any way they can, be it to assist a human being to walk to a church, face a mob of rioters, apprehend those murderers who are still around; they are always there! What all of us, especially our politician­s, have failed to realise is that these

BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY AND THEY DO IT SO SINCERELY SO THAT YOU AND I MAY LIVE PEACEFULLY! THEY ARE ALSO MOTHERS AND FATHERS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BUT THEY GLADLY FACE DESTINY EVERYDAY OF THEIR LIVES, SO THAT YOU AND I CAN SLEEP SAFE AND WALK THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT FEAR! WE CAN NEVER IN THIS LIFE REPAY THE TREMENDOUS DEBT WE OWE THEM! HAVE WE EVER SEEN A SINGLE HI-FI RICH LADY OR GENTLEMAN, OR ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER STOP AT A CHECKPOINT TO OFFER THE SECURITY

FORCES SOMETHING TO EAT, OR MORE IMPORTANTL­Y, A DRINK TO QUENCH THEIR THIRST IN THE UNBEARABLE HEAT THIS COUNTRY IS GOING THROUGH - THEY ARE MUCH TOO HIGH AND MIGHTY TO DO SOMETHING AS HUMANE AS THAT!

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