"Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!"(Troy)
The Tigers fired mortars and opened fire with small arms at the soldiers manning a check post the sources said.
The SLA retaliated by firing shells towards LTTE held villages of Kannankudah and Kurinjamunai in the western hinter land.
Following the incident the Tigers and SLA exchanged mortar fire for nearly two hours. Some of the mortars fired by the Tigers fell near Vavunathivu SLA camp and Sri Lanka Air Force base in Batticaloa, the sources said.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not always have.
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."
