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(Got this great idea from Roshmi who begins each post by ... er ... updating her readers with her blog's statistics, be it Alexa traffic rank, or the monetary value ... shh! between you and me ... wink wink :D)
But what I plan to write about now, is a lot grimmer than how this seems.
Yesterday our earth turned a day old ... and yet another date, viz the 8th of July 2009, made it's way into the annals of time, and possibly into some historians diary, and along with it, it marked the passage of a decade since the historic capture of Tiger Hill at Kargil. It has indeed been a long time since this achievement, but the memories of the gruesome war still linger on in the mind of the average Indian.
1999 ... was in class 3, and I remember very clearly, the huddle-up every evening around NDTV to catch up on the latest news from the battlefront. People had been killed ... many, many people had been killed, but then I had been too young to understand the gravity of the situation, and it seemed like ... well, a thriller movie. When I learnt to realise how grim it had been, the war was over. It was in 2003 again that I could actually relive those moments of tragedy, and sacrifice ... courtesy the movie LOC: Kargil ... but I still wager whether that was any close to the real action.
A particular quote keeps getting back to me ... by Capt. Vikram Batra, hours before his death on Tiger Hill, during an interview with NDTV: "Either I shall come back after hoisting the Indian flag, or shall come back wrapped in it ... but I shall come back for sure..."
sparks with dedication, patriotism, and resonates with the fervour of one's will to do his duty for his motherland, come what may ... the willingness to make the Supreme Sacrifice for his country, which has nurtured him for years ...
Yesterday, the Indian Express carried a list of names of the martyrs ... the valiant soldiers and jawans of the 17 JAT "MASHOKH" regiment,who sacrificed thier lives during the capture of Tiger Hill (Operation Vijay), under the column "Salute the Soldier". I, within my meagre abilities, consider it my duty to put down their names here as well ... after all, we have been glorified in their glories, haven't we?
- late Maj Ritesh Sharma
- late Capt. Anuj Nayyar, MVC
- late Sub. Rajpal Singh
- late Sub Harphool Singh
- late Hav Kumar Singh, VrC
- late Hav Hari Om, SM
- late Hav Mahavir Singh, SM
- late Hav Bhagwan Singh
- late Hav Pawan Kumar
- late Hav Prithavi Singh
- late L/Hav Balwan Singh, SM
- late Nk Ram Swarop Singh
- late Nk Krishan Lal
- late Nk Shyambir Singh
- late Nk Rishi Pal Singh
- late L/Nk Rajesh
- late L/Nk Vijay Singh
- late L/Nk Ramvir Singh
- late L/Nk Rajendra Singh
- late Sep Ranveer Singh
- late Sep Vijay Pal
- late Sep Hawa Singh
- late Sep Naresh Kumar
- late Sep Tara Chand
- late Sep Vinod Kumar
- late Sep Syodana Ram
- late Sep Dharamvir Singh
- late Sep Gajpal Singh
- late Sep Satyvir Singh
- late Sep Dharambir Singh
- late Sep Krishan Kumar
- late Sep Karan Singh
- late Sep Raj Singh
- late Sep Kanchi Singh
- late Sep Shish Ram
- late Sep Jitendra Singh
- late Sep Surendra Pal Singh
- late Sep Anil Kumar
- late Sep Virender Kumar
- late Sep Rajbir
- late Sep Sarman Singh
- late Sep Kalu Ram Jakhar
- late Sep Ratna Ram
- late Sep Surender Singh, SM
- late Sep Kuldeep Singh
- late Sep Attar Singh
Please note that the Jat regiment was just one out of several other regiments (especially the Grenadiers and the Nagas, to name the two other significant ones) which suffered the same fate, and this list is therefore far from even half complete, and should have ideally been much, much longer. However, these were the names I could get my hands on, and my apologies are with those equally brave-hearted martyrs whose names do not feature here.
JAI HIND
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