RAGDU TOLA (ARA): Tears welled up in her eyes, but that didn't take away a steely edge from her voice. “Iss buzdil akraman ka desh badla le (the country should avenge this cowardly attack)," said
Sangita, the widow of Hawaldar
Ashok Kumar Singh, 50, who was martyred in the
Uri attack .
No word, however, escaped a stony faced Jaynarayan
Singh, Sangita's father-in-law. Though numbed by the bereavement, the 80-year-old small farmer of Ragdu Tola in
Bhojpur district knows a thing, or two, about sacrificing his sons for the country.
Ashok's elder brother, Kamta Singh, was in his early twenties when he was killed in a terror attack -during the height of Sikh militancy -in Rajasthan in 1986.He was also a soldier.
Everyone in this village knows that the latest sacrifice won't deter another Singh from guarding the nation's borders -Ashok's elder son, Vishal, who has followed in the footsteps of his father and uncle and joined the Army .