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They'd promised their families they'd come back soon. They more than kept their word. Went as mere men. Came back as heroes. In coffins.
"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW"
Captain Jintu Gogoi, Vir Chakra
... Just a day before he fell in the battlefield, Jintu had written to his father, “The war was well done. Nothing known about my next visit”.
A few days later, home they brought the warrior dead.
"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW"
Captain Jintu Gogoi, Vir Chakra
... Just a day before he fell in the battlefield, Jintu had written to his father, “The war was well done. Nothing known about my next visit”.
A few days later, home they brought the warrior dead.
When the mortal remains of the young soldier — he was just 28 — arrived home a few days later, every inch of space on either side of the road from Jorhat airport to Khumtai in Golaghat was packed with people shouting “long live Jintu Gogoi”.
On the night of June 29-30, 1999, during the Operation Vijay, Captain Gogoi was tasked to evict the enemy from Ridge Line Kala Pathar near the Line of Control in general area of Juber Hill complex in Batalik sub-sector. With utter disregard to his personal safety, he led the troops in the face of the heavy volume of fire on the enemy killing two enemy soldiers before making the supreme sacrifice for the Nation.
Before his action, he made sure that his group had taken cover for safety. Captain Gogoi displayed most conspicuous act of bravery, unparalleled devotion to duty and leadership of most exceptional order in the face of the enemy in the most inhospitable terrain,
Captain Gogoi displayed most conspicuous act of bravery, unparalleled devotion to duty and leadership of most exceptional order in the face of the enemy in the most inhospitable terrain.
President K. R. Narayanan conferred Vir Chakra to Captain Jintu Gogoi posthumously.
Jai Hind
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