"Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!"(Troy)
He said the SLAF had decided to purchase three more K 8 aircraft to replace the three aircraft damaged during the Katunayake attack in July 2001.
Speaking to journalists after a passing out parade of Air Force officers at the Diyatalawa camp, he said the new aircraft would be brought from China on easy payment terms over a period of six years.
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Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not always have.
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."
