What’s a Soldier’s Fault?

“Yuddhasya Katha Ramyam” [war stories are glorious]. Everyone likes to hear the war stories, the valor and the grit with which the brave soldiers fought for their motherland.

Not giving-in, no going back, not even caring for their life, ready to sacrifice anything.

There come the news, so many soldiers of enemy shot down, so many wounded. With each and every such news, it creates a proud feeling in the opponent countrymen.

Wars are happening since the medieval times. Two or many groups, fighting for some or other thing, the heads of the groups taking decisions on behalf of the people in their land.

Soldiers — ready to fight and die.

But have we ever thought, if not for this war — for the values, unending thirst for conquering new lands, many a times for the egos of the heads’ of the two opponent parties, would these soldiers kill each other.

One of the celebrity here in India once said ‘any bullet shot on the battlefield, first targets to a mother’s heart’, so much true.

In a war, one of the parties is always wrong. And for that wrong one, the other has to sacrifice, at the same time just because of the leader of the wrong party, his men also have to sacrifice.

How correct is this. Then in these clashes, unnecessarily the soldiers get killed. Which adds fuel to existing fire in the minds’ of the families, countrymen to take revenge.

It’s like wildfire which never ceases and we see in today’s world, how difficult to douse it.

Wars are weird, where two unknown people just try to kill each other, with no fault of each other, except they born in those respective territories.

I am not saying we should accept the wrongdoings, being a coward. To save the oppressed and while standing up for weak, it’s okay to go for a war.

But we should be more biased to avoid wars as good citizens of the world.