🕯️ “Tell Mama I Forgive Her” – The Last Words of a Wounded Soldier 🪖

His name was Private Hassan Bello.
He wasn’t the strongest in training.
He wasn’t the fastest.
But he was the only one who never gave up — even when his feet bled during parade, even when his letters from home stopped coming.

You see, Hassan joined the Army without his mother’s blessing.
She had lost his elder brother in a road accident — and her heart had no space left for another goodbye.

“If you love me, you won’t join the Army,” she said.

He responded with silence… and a uniform.

He left home with a small bag and an even smaller heart.
No hugs. No prayers.
Just a picture of his mother folded inside his Quran.

On a mission in Marte, his unit came under heavy attack.

Gunshots. Fire. Chaos.

Hassan was hit in the leg, but he crawled across sand and thorns to pull another soldier from the line of fire.

A second bullet tore into his side.

Bleeding heavily, breathing slow, he pressed a soaked cloth to his wound and said to his friend beside him:

“If I don’t make it… tell Mama I forgive her. She was just afraid to lose me too.”

He died holding that folded photo — his mother’s face stained with his blood.

Back at the base, when they were preparing his belongings to send home, they found a voice note on his small Nokia phone.

It simply said:

“Even if she never forgives me, I’ll always protect her from wherever I am. That’s what sons do.”

Today, in a small compound in Kaduna, an elderly woman sits outside every evening holding her radio.

She plays his favorite Hausa song.
She sets his slippers by the door.
She says:

“I was angry, not because he left… but because I loved him too much.”

And when neighbors ask where Hassan is, she always whispers:

“He’s nearby. Just not where I can reach him.”

🕯️ *Some soldiers go to war carrying guns.

Others go carrying silence, regret… and love.*

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