I am an avid reader of your Blog. I am forwarding a link which depicts how soldiers are respected in Canada. Maybe our countrymen can learn something from this.
With warm regards
Vipul
I would like to point out that this is an issue that has been around for a while but with it being Remembrance Day today I thought it was appropriate to share this with the world. This story is about a Canadian soldier but how many in the world can say that it could not be about one of their sons or daughters.
Remembrance day- click me
An article which appeared in Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad) during Mid October, 2008 written by Vice-Admiral Arun Kumar Singh who retired as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam is timely and needs to be made use of during the rally being held on 12th April, 2009.
Relevant extract is given below :
“India’s said history of lack of strategic vision and its inability to protect the wealth its entrepreneurs have traditionally generated resulted in about 1,300 years of foreign invasions, slaughter and subjugation, Progressively destroying the morale and respect of the military, in 61 years since Independence, will result in history repeating itself.
The three wise ministers reviewing the armed forces’ pay, may like to remember this letter written in 320 BC by Kautilya (author of Arthasashtra) to Emperor Chandra Gupta Maurya: ”… My Lord, the day the Mauryan solider has to demand his dues, or worse, plead for them, would neither have arrived overnight nor in vain. It will also bode ill for Magadha. For then, on that day, you my Lord, will have lost all moral sanction to be king! It will also be the beginning of the end of the Mauryan Empire!!”. I sincerely hope that a placard can suitably be designed and displayed at the Rally for wide publicity.
Regards,
Col Indarpal (Retd)
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