quote from the book in the company of heroes

He led the troops in the face of heavy enemy fire and reached the top by first light but only to be surrounded by an enemy who asked him to surrender. On the intervening night of June 29/30, 1999 during ' Operation Vijay', Captain Gogoi was tasked with evicting the enemy from ridge line Kala Pathar near the Line of control in Jubar Hill area of Batalik sub-sector. Gogoi was recalled from leave to join his unit just 12 days after his engagement. After 24 years, we are glad that he got this chance, that is bigger than all the medals that he has got.' 'Whenever we used to be worried for him he always used to say that there are so many soldiers who retire from the services waiting for this chance and he has got this chance. Honorary Flying officer Thogiram Gogoi, father of Captain Jintu Gogoi, said 'For a soldier, the chance to go to war and fight for a country, is bigger than any medal. He requested his father to tell 'a story a day from the Mahabharata to Charu so that your grandchild imbibes good values.' The last letter to his father Wg Cdr Jagannath Acharya (retd) reads 'Combat is an honor of a lifetime and I would not think of anything less.

Major Acharya, awarded with Maha Vir Chakra posthumously, laid down his life during the famous battle of Tololing. 'The fact that I am not remembering him alone, fills me with both nostalgia and pride,' Charulata, who was pregnant with Aparijita, their daughter when her husband died in 1999, said. What can be more proud that the entire nation remembers our family members fondly.

'For me and for families of war heroes, the visit to the Veer Bhoomi is an annual pilgrimage. 'These words comforted us that he was always desperate for this chance, he always had it in him and we are nothing but proud,' he said while quoting another one liner of his brother 'If death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear, I will kill death!'įor Charulata Acharya, wife of Major Padmapani Acharya, it's a pilgrimage to visit here.

Quote from the book in the company of heroes