The war of guts and determination...contd The Officers life is certainly Royal in the Army. But in case of war there is no discrimination of officer or other ranks. The bullet passess through as aimed. The Paks straffing and air attack was not an aimed fire and hence Indian troops were hit indscriminately and it was unfortunate that Ganesan was hit. He got up from where he was thrown with unbearable pain in the right leg. As there was no external wound he opened the right boot and stood up. suddenly a jet of blood sprang just above right toe. Not bothered about this minor injury and as the air raid was over got into his jeep and started looking for his unit.On 05 sep he located his unit which was about to move to an area near samba. The CO was very sad to see Ganesan wounded and right leg swollen badly he asked Ganesan to report to military hospital immediately. Ganesan went to MH Pathankot which was flooded with war casualities. xRay was taken on Ganesan'sright leg and declared that it was a fracture and he was admitted there itself. The hospital was shaking up by the 130mm shells of Pak firing. The Air field was next door to MH,Pak'sfiring on to the air field equally damaged MH also. Pakistan has dropped para troopers to link up with ground attack pers.
Since casualities were pouring in MH decided to shift some of the light injury pers to down south hospitals. So on 09 sep special military casuality train carrying about 250 light injury and who can stand travel left Pathankot for Delhi. Needless to mention that Ganesan was part of this casuality train. contd.....
born and brought up in rural back ground.Sannanallur, a village at the cross junction of Nagappattinam-Kumbakonam road and Tiruvarur-Mayiladuthurai road.Studied at elementry school, sannanallur, Board high school, Nannilam, Annamalai plytechnic, Chettinad. Served in PWD of Tamilnadu Govt 1961-63.selected for Army service in 63.Adventurous and unblemished service for 30 years. Stood first in B.Tech at the college of Military Engineering,Pune, Maharashtra. Selected as India's mission leader to Dakshingangotri, Indian Antarctic Resarch Station, at south pole, Antarctica, 1987-89, and spent 480 days at the icy continent. Awarded Vashisht seva medal by the President of India,1994. Retired from Army 1994.Running a psycho-adventure foundation since then.
