‘If Death Strikes Before I Prove My Blood, I Swear I Will Kill Death” Happy Indian Army Day
By D N Singh
“Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor (Indian flag), or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.” Those were the words from Capt Vikram Batra, those still resonate across the borders where our brave soldiers stay on guard and at moments in the nights lay wrapped by a haze of fear and ferocity.
This the day in our history, in 1949 when ambitions of each Indian remained encased safe under the valor of each soldier. Lieutenant General KM Carriapa took over as the first Commander-In-Chief of the Indian Army, as an Indian.
Since then the country proudly commemorates the Army Day, as mark of reassurance for the brave soldiers that, never quit and we are behind you.
A near dead can rise up from the haze of hopelessness if he or she hears to words like, “If death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I’ll kill Death” was the clamor from Capt Manoj Ku Pandey.
Lying flat on the freezing snow, silent, like a panther-in-wait for its prey, slightest sound of the enemy boots send them up from that unknown hibernations and take on the invader.
There are untold number of tales of such valor for which the pages of history may fall short.
Almost every day such stories of bravery get sketched on the snow or dust but later they take refuge in anonymity of time.
