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A SALUTE TO. OF KARGIL WAR
READ THE LETTER BELOW WE RECAPTURED OUR LAST HILL FROM
PAKISTAN KARGIL'S FIRST
HERO His Uniform as a memory
Officers & Jawans from the 2nd Rajputana Rifles pray before going into battle, to get back Tololing Top. Behind the jawan in the foreground (with a 5.56mm INSAS rifle) is Captain Vijayant Thapar <http://www.captainvijyantthapar.com/> . His face is partly hidden and is seen sporting a beard. Lieutenant Thapar laid down his life, in the capture of Tololing Top and was awarded the Vir Chakra posthumously for his valour
Major Padmapani Acharya, 2nd Rajputana Rifles, leads his men into battle after the successful capture of Tololing Top. The 2 Raj. Rifles' next assignment was to capture the Knoll mountain feature in the Black Rock area, which is in the Drass sub-sector. It was here, that Major Acharya laid down his life in the highest traditions of the Indian Army on 29 June 1999. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, posthumously . Making the way through narrow valley
<http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images/0225.jpg> The Leh-Batalik road is as notorious as the Srinagar-Kargil road. At its beginning lie staging areas, at its end fierce fighting and often, death. Jawans patrol the rugged slopes near Batalik. For them, there is little time for rest and little time to think, always poised on the edge of action. Capt.Vijayant
Thapar (Robin) Lieutenant
Thapar 2nd
Rajputana Rifles laid
down his life, in the capture of Tololing Top and was awarded the Vir
Chakra posthumously for his valour.
His Last Letter to his parents Moments before the final assault Capt. Vijyant Thapar (Robin) left this letter at the war front base, to be handed over to his family.
AND AFTER THAT HE CAME
BACK HOME WITH TRI COLOR DRAPED
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Captain (Dr.) Rajshree Gupta, Army Medical Corps (AMC), salutes the tricolour-draped coffin of her husband, Major Vivek Gupta of the 2nd Rajputana Rifles, who died fighting the enemies. KINDLY SPARE A MAIL TO FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS JAI HIND Larry Vaincourt has been writing for many years and has been published across Canada and the United States; this poem was first published in 1987 in his newspaper column. The poem has been edited to give the desired contents JUST A COMMON SOLDIER (A
Soldier Died Today) He was getting old and paunchy and
his hair was falling fast, And
tho' sometimes, to his neighbors, his tales became a joke, He will not be mourned by many,
just his children and his wife, He was just a common soldier and
his ranks are growing thin, If we cannot do him honor while
he's here to hear the praise,
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