{"id":6840,"date":"2025-12-13T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:55:11","slug":"proof-my-fathers-sacrifice-was-not-forgotten-sons-emotional-moment-after-25-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/proof-my-fathers-sacrifice-was-not-forgotten-sons-emotional-moment-after-25-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Proof my father\u2019s sacrifice was not forgotten\u2019: Son\u2019s emotional moment after 25 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says LG Manoj Sinha gave his family \u2018dignity, hope &amp; reason to live again\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Dec 13: For 25 years, he carried a silence too heavy for words. On Saturday afternoon, standing inside the Lok Bhavan Auditorium in Srinagar, 26-year-old Syed Anwar from Gurez finally spoke, his voice trembling, his eyes moist, and his heart full of memories he never got to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was killed in 2002 in Chattora, Bargaun. I was only one and a half years old then,\u201d Anwar said, in a soft, halting voice, while speaking with the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO). \u201cI didn\u2019t even know what was happening around me. I didn\u2019t know what a father\u2019s love felt like. I grew up hearing stories about him, how he was brave, kind and respected by everyone. But I never saw him. Not once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Anwar, childhood meant watching others go to school with their fathers, while he walked with his mother, clutching her hand tightly. \u201cWhen you grow up without a father, the world treats you differently,\u201d he said. \u201cYou learn to hide your pain, to smile even when it hurts. We had no one; only my mother\u2019s courage kept us alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His family survived on a small pension, stretching every rupee, every day. \u201cSometimes, we didn\u2019t even have enough for books or clothes,\u201d Anwar recalled. \u201cBut my mother never let us give up. She used to say, \u2018Your father\u2019s blood runs in your veins, you must live with pride, not pity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, after more than two decades, Syed Anwar received an appointment letter under the special employment package for families of terror victims, a moment he called \u201ca new beginning after years of darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thankful to LG Sahab for everything,\u201d he said, holding the letter close to his chest. \u201cIt is not just a job. It\u2019s respect. It\u2019s dignity. It\u2019s proof that my father\u2019s sacrifice was not forgotten. This is for my mother, for every night she cried alone, for every morning she went to work just to keep us alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pausing, he added softly, \u201cToday, I feel my father is watching from somewhere above. Maybe now, he can finally rest in peace.\u201d (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says LG Manoj Sinha gave his family \u2018dignity, hope &amp; reason to live again\u2019 Srinagar, Dec 13: For 25 years, he carried a silence too heavy for words. On Saturday afternoon, standing inside the Lok Bhavan Auditorium in Srinagar, 26-year-old Syed Anwar from Gurez finally spoke, his voice trembling, his eyes moist, and his heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}