This is purely my personal opinion, and I hold it very close to my heart as I have many close friends whom I call brothers, who are in the valley today.
I know it may sound selfish, but whenever I hear or read news of another death, I pray the name is not that of someone I know.
I put it before you guys (Indians) as a request, whether you agree or not.
When one of ours falls, we should grieve for him in privacy, and pay our respects in other ways than to post a thread about it here.
I realise that the intentions are good, and there will be a floof of RIP brave soldier type posts.
But equally there will be some from our friends next door posting congratulatory messages, which will really go down bad at such a time.
If on a Defence site, a soldier's death cannot be respected, then I do not know where else on the Net it will be.
Even on the battle field in the heat of battle and the surge of emotions, a fallen enemy is not disrespected.
I don't know ..... maybe its just a generational thing, and my generation just belongs to a time where such crassness was just not on.
Sad, Doc