The family of Sepoy Sundara Pandian (27), had been eagerly waiting for him to arrive in his village near Tirumangalam in Madurai district in July. His 19-year-old wife Shivapriya who is 9 months pregnant, had wanted her husband to arrive even earlier and to be there when she had their first child. But on Thursday, a phone call from the army shocked the entire family into silence. The entire village, according to the late soldier's relatives, is in mourning.