Jaswant Singh Rawat was born on 19th August 1941 to Guman Singh Rawat in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. Rawat joined the Indian Army on 19th August 1960, aged 19 years, as a Rifleman. On 17th November 1962, when the troops of Garhwal Rifles had been ordered to retreat from the Battle of Nuranang (Sino-Indian War), Rawat refused to budge and desert his post. It was the final phase of the war, which had in any other case fared poorly for the Indian Army because the Indian troops started to fray from a scarcity of manpower and ammunition. So when the Chinese attacked that morning from the Sela top, they did now no longer assume to come upon the daredevilry and uncommon braveness of a younger Indian soldier to come in their way and ruin their larger plans. The attack, which began out in the morning on seventeenth November, went on for the next 72 hours. At one point, when the Chinese came too close to his company with an MMG, Jaswant determined to make the final sacrifice and went ahead...