Facing the Enemy Within!
As somebody who has never known any life other than the life in the Defense Forces, The Indian Air Force, as a daughter first and then as a wife, the news of the Mirage 2000 crash where we lost two of our best pilots hit me hard as it has done many-a-times before. They were young test pilots, the finest of the fine, looking forward to a rewarding career and life. Snatched away too soon, it is only their families who can wholly understand and comprehend the loss of these young men doing for the country what most others are afraid to. Every time my husband doesn't call or text after he has supposed to have landed, listening to my thumping heart, I call him to check if he has touched down. As the wife of a fighter pilot, a test pilot and now a corporate pilot, I have trained myself not to worry about what could happen each time he soars off into the skies, his life in the hands of a machine, I have never really understood. ...