Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell is disgusted with Chris Hayes

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33. Not really

Your interpretation in reference to today's military extends the word "hero" in relation to individuals who are identified as such to "bad wars, whatever the motivation."

You are obviously free to hold your opinion. To try to force it on others by challenging the language that validates people who did jobs that surely terrified and horrified them at times is not fair.

I don't think they should have been there. And I don't think many who signed up to be in the reserves or national guard expected to go to war. But, I assume that they had a good reason for their initial participation and fulfilled their fine print obligations.

Some enlisted believing they were taking part in something that would have a positive effect on the country and even the world. Who am I to tell them different if they get misty over the pledge of allegiance and maintain a brand of patriotism that is different from mine?

It is unnecessary to create a controversy over a label that carries a personal meaning for individual soldiers and their families. A word that they may accept or reject themselves.

There are certainly cases in which the word hero can not possibly be reasonably be applied. But, it is used as a shorthand directed toward the majority who did the dirtiest of dirty work in fulfillment of an obligation.
Others may have been drafted without their participation.

The individual soldiers do not deserve the contempt of this controversy. That should be directed at the US government for creating the situation in the first place.