You don’t protect my freedom Our Childish Insistence on Calling Soldiers Heroes

[heaven05]

121. to me, there is heroism in the military

it is covering the back of people in your unit. Quick response in pulling out a mate from a burning humvee, yep. Actions such as this produces heroes. All are to be commended for feeling responsible enough to join a service of the military and for following their orders, whether the military should be undertaking a certain campaign or not.

Two weeks after getting in country RVN, I had volunteered, not being well versed on geopolitics I knew I was in DS. My family is/ always was career military. But 2 weeks after arriving I was saying to myself, well you don't want to hear it, but I stayed, followed orders and came home vowing never to watch another John Wayne movie. That last part is a joke, but war does not make one a hero, it sometimes makes one dead or a casualty with arms, legs gone and from this last one brain trauma. I agree, in principle with your statement. War and the death it causes is ugly, ugly ugly.

on edit: and war produces bravery and cowardice. But mostly bravery for being in harms way. So heroism is relative.