A soldier loves everyone, maybe the eyes do not express a smile but the heart beats at watching the Awaam (people) because the soldiers are also from the Awaam

A soldier loves everyone, maybe the eyes do not express a smile but the heart beats at watching the Awaam (people) because the soldiers are also from the Awaam

The guys in the Indian Army do not have stone hearts, they are soft hearted but they have a duty which is at times rough, at times tough and every time dedicated to the Nation, the people and the last their own families’!

-‘A soldier loves everyone, maybe the eyes do not express a smile but the heart beats at watching the Awaam (people) because the soldiers are also from the Awaam’!

-‘Lovely was the compliment given to the soldiers (though the language was Kashmiri but the interpreter in the patrol mentioned that! The officer leading the patrol responded, ‘the hope of the future is resoundingly wonderful! The interpreter replied back in Kashmiri, (then he told me the meaning of what they meant?The reply from Pervez (interpreter) was that they were asking,’ could Sir, not come up with your own?’! The officer smiled and replied let us have breakfast together! That was the first meeting but the friendship between the Awaam and the Jawan was bound to increase as time did roll on, somewhere shadows, somewhere darkness and then again the sunlight!’ This incident is of Kulgam and I will not tell you the name of the officer and the kids! The office is elsewhere and the kids on the job, which the officer always taught them on the way side breakfast, meet!’! Usually Puri, Aloo!!

-‘Every soldier leaves a memory behind at the place he serves! He/she (soldiers) leave messages of love and the loves continue to mushroom! Maybe a soldier gets a second or perhaps a third tenure at the same place but he/she will immediately remember the houses and the faces of the kids who by now have grown up and their faces changed and also the houses and the paints!’

-‘No man is a man until he has been a soldier.’ This every Indian soldier knows’!

‘A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.’!

There are several stories in our bag that will reveal soldiers on duty cannot get home to see their newly born babies! Thanks to the technological out lay they can talk to their wives and watch their baby! The urge is there to reach home but duty first is always their prime concern!

Instead they seek small happiness by being amongst the children in the area they are posted in! that is what a true soldier is and these were two words who gave us the urge to tackle this story a bit differently!

Any way we will end this one in our own style, ‘for no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn’t the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers.’ These lines are from Magus Guidan a great author but they perfectly suit an Indian soldier who was, is and will be true to his duty till infinity!