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A man who has never been to war or participated in a military operation could never truly define its meaning.

Men sacrifice their lives for war. But what about those who return alive? Do you not think they too sacrifice a thing or two? Some lose a part of themselves. Others, a fragment of their souls, while many surrender all of their souls.

Captain Abdullah Maleek, now Major Abdullah Maleek, a man portrayed as existing without a soul, left that part of himself behind even before he entered the scene of conflict. What could he have offered in a war without his own soul? He offered his all. He gave the war his best. He dedicated his life to the service of his nation, laying his life on the line. Yet, he returned.

He returned as a man void of soul, a man burdened with gruesome memories of death and pain. Memories that haunted him, reflecting the day he had lost his zeal to live.

He might be alive, but was he truly? Could one genuinely live without the core of their being?

When asked about his brother, Major A.S Ahmad, what could he have said? He couldn't utter a word because he learned that his brother's men had returned to Nigeria in barely half the number they had set out with.

An answer? No one possessed it because no one knew where the brave man had gone, dead or alive, his existence had been swallowed by the unforgiving shadows of war.

It is a tale untold; a tale of a love worthy.

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