THE SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL

When you go home, tell them of us and say..
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.......

These lines are probably the most moving words ever scripted in memory of soldiers.Engraved on the Kohima war memorial in Nagaland,it marks the Battle of Kohima on
31-5-44 ie. 63yrs. ago when the Japanese tried to invade India. They failed at Kohima and the war saw death of more than 18000 British and Indian soldiers.Kohima was the Last stop of the Japanese army's march to Delhi.

In thousands of epitaphs all over the world the famous lines, known as the Kohima prayer are repeated.The words are attributed to John Maxwell Edmunds(1875-1958) an English classicist, who put them together among a collection of 12 epitaphs for World War I. According to British officials the words were used for the Kohima Memorial as a suggestion by Major John Etty Leat the GSOII of 2nd division.
On the occassion of Vijay Diwas, symbolic of our victory at Kargil..a salute to all our war heroes..known and unknown.