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The Last Drumbeat” – A Soldier Who Never Danced Home Again 🪖

His name was Staff Sergeant Chinedu Nkemakonam.
To his village, he was the boy who always danced first at every masquerade festival.
To the Nigerian Army, he was a fearless fighter — the man who never let a single bullet scare him.

But to his wife, Amaka…
He was just “Nedu” — the husband who never stopped smiling, even when he was tired from battle.

The call came on a Friday.
Troops were needed urgently to back up men pinned down near the Sambisa axis.

He packed quickly. Hugged his twin sons. Gave Amaka a note sealed in nylon.

“If I don’t come back, open this.”

She slapped his chest playfully, laughing through her tears:

“Stop that, Nedu! You’ll come back. You always do.”

He smiled. He always smiled.

The operation was brutal.

A hidden IED tore through their Hilux.
Shrapnel hit three soldiers.
Chinedu was the last man standing.
He radioed for air support, dragged one bleeding corporal behind cover, and kept firing…

…until he didn’t.

When reinforcements arrived, they found Chinedu slumped over his radio — hand still clutching the mic.

“Enemy approaching from the east… hold line… I repeat—”
And that was his last transmission.

Three days later.
A knock on Amaka’s door.
Three officers in dress uniform.
One folded flag.

She knew.

She opened the nylon he gave her. Inside was a letter written in ink and rain-stained fingerprints:

“If you’re reading this, Amaka, it means I didn’t make it home. But I died for you. For our boys. For this land we call Nigeria. Tell Chisom and Ebuka that their father was a warrior. And tell Mama… I’ll see her again in the land of ancestors.”

Today, in the compound of Chinedu’s family house, his mother still beats the ogene (metal gong) every evening — not in celebration, but in mourning.

And his twin boys?
They now wear little wooden necklaces carved with the letters “SN” — for Sergeant Nedu.

And when anyone asks who their father was, they say:

“Our father danced into battle… and never stopped until the music faded.”

🕯️ He was a son, a father, a fighter. And now, a name carried by the wind.

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