Thread by @love_for_nation

He was born on 17th Dec 1989 in AFCH, Bangalore.
Remembering
Major Anuj Sood
SC (P)
21 RR/19 GUARDS
on his 33rd Birth Anniversary.
Maj Sood immortalised himself in the service of Nation on 2nd May 2020 in Handwara while extrication civilians who were held hostages by terrorists.

There are thousands of couples who kept the interest of countrymen first over their own Happiness. Here's one of them, Maj Anuj Sood & Smt Aakriti Sood.
#CostofFreedom

"I think of the good times we shared, sometimes you feel angry, sometimes sad. I talk about the moments we had, the stories we shared, and that brings happiness to me."

Both were from Army backgrounds.
Anuj's father is a retired Brigadier while Aakriti's father was in Navy.

The two then met at a Holi party for the first time. After watching her, Anuj already knew she was the one. He rushed to his friends and said she is the girl he would marry.

As days went by, the two got close and he finally proposed to her on 9th May 2016, as he went down on one knee with a rose amid the windmills, she gushed and said yes.

After marriage, Maj Anuj had missed some anniversaries, but Akriti had plans to join Anuj at his next posting.

At 8 am on 3rd May, she got the call that no army wife wants to receive.

"It is a call that we all fear, but somewhere in our minds, we are mentally prepared that this could happen. When you marry an army officer you know this."

She recalls.

Maj Anuj's tenure in the Kashmir valley had ended. He has been transferred to Gurdaspur, but the coronavirus pandemic prevented him from travelling out of the valley. Sadly, it cost him his life.

#GuardiansoftheNation
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