"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW" -- Kargil martyrs remembered

"I will not hesitate to send all my three sons to the front."

The pride statement of a patriotic Indian women.. One of the real life heroines of India.. Yes these are the words from the mouth of Santosh kanwar, widow of Kargil hero Mangej Singh.


July 26 is Kargil Vijay Divas, the time every year when national memory needs to be jogged into awakening about a not-all-that-distant past but one almost totally extinct in public consciousness. A front-page newspaper photograph captured the moment — two Sikh pipers playing against the forbidding mass of Tiger Hill looming through the clouds, in remembrance of its recapture by Grenadiers and Sikhs of the Indian Army on July 5, 1999, an incredible feat of extreme mountaineering under enemy fire.


Yes, 10 years back from now,from may 1 to july 26 1999, at about this time the incredibly brave Young Officers of the Indian Army leading from the front, their gallant teams of soldiers, were hurtling themselves against Pakistan Army occupied mountain tops in the Kargil Sector.

These days every morning when one opens the morning newspapers and comes to the obituary pages one sees the photographs of so many of these Young Officers and soldiers in remembrances by their Regiments and Battalions. The mind and one’s head gets bowed in homage to these brave martyrs, and they seem to be reminding us of the famous lines etched on the Kohima War Memorial:

“ When you go home,
Tell them of us and say,
For theirs tomorrow,
We gave our today. ”

Touching words, and invariably one’s mind wanders towards the thought as to how many Indian political leaders have for our tomorrows given their today ?


Isn't it our responsibility to salute this heros' ? "JAIHO -- MARTYRS"



Take a oath -- "We'll follow your foot prints in saving my mother country.. Not only from cross border attackers.. but also from the forces like Bribes,Traitors etc.."


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