SORRY SAM - we Indians dont deserve souls like you!

[Nerd]

The speaker read the obit of Sam yesterday before starting proceedings. Its a great thing because, normally the death of people who did not belong to the house will not be condoled at the house.

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salute Sam .

[vramesh]

Sam Bahadur was only the 2nd Field Marshal of the country, next to Gen KM Cariappa. I recollect sitting on the front steps at home on Monday May 18 1993 and reading the tributes to the deceased giant in the The Hindu after his demise.

For a long time I have been searching for the biographies of these 2 men. It is titled something like 'A soldier speaks' perhaps co-authored by Depinder Singh or some Lieutenant.

Sad that we don't find men like that. Another unsung hero is Brigadier Mohammad Usman, who staunchly turned down Jinnah's request to switch sides and successfully spearheaded operations for the Indian Army to recover several parts of Kashmir from Pakistan in 1948. Usman died at 36.