Shot? So quick, so clean an ending?Oh, that was right, lad, that was braveYours was not an ill for mending,Twas best to take it to the grave

A.E. Housman (1959-1936).

THEY shot Monginsidi at Pacinang, Makassar on September 5, 1949.

Someone noted that a few minutes before he was executed, Monginsidi, the guerrilla leader feared by the occupying Dutch army, forgave the firing squad charged with killing him. Perhaps he quoted Luke who recorded Jesuss w