How do we define Heroes?

Someone is pretty sure of themself!!!

I like the strutting!!

 

Looks like a waddle from here, suck it in man, chest out, chin up. Belieeeeve you da man.
Equal encouragement to be offered to The Toastinator at the appropriate time in the interests of fair play.

 

Sorry David, but we have seen Simon the Toastinator being heroic, and I have yet to see you pull off a similar feat. Good luck, odds are against you.

Oh, and I will not claim to behave like an adult until next June at the earliest, and maybe not even then.

 

Are there many adults on here then? I'm not one! It will be a while till I grow up!

 

I'm not pulling my feet off for anybody, I guess that makes Simon the more heroic. At least until I heroically creep up behind him on a dark night, and stick my heroic knife between his pseudo heroic shoulderblades, and then heroically run away.

 

here in the u.s. the word' hero' has been greatly debased ...ordinary school teachers ,policemen , dads who coach little leauge baseball are call heros just for doing their job....a milatary hero is one who does above and beyond what is expected,usually a great risk.rall and priller were heros indeed ,they were just on the wrong side...sally ride is not a hero,just a person who died while on a shuttle mission...john glen and charles linhdberg were heros just cause they were first..its true that sometimes heros are fabricated because of political expediency...colin kelly ,moh winner cause we needed one.[ he did not crash his b17 into a jap battleship or any other ship,,,,]....general mac gets moh ...for fleeing his command in luzon...they wanted to give my dad a purple heart for steping on a big nail while running to a bunker in shower shoes during a vc motar attack ...he refused it[it caused him quite allot of grief with senior brass...they thought he was being anti war or somethin...] his brother officers thought he was crazy to pass up what would be a carreer boosting ribbon on his chest[very hard for remf ord. officers to get combat ribbons]....he just did not think it right that he recieve the same decoration as some kid grunt that had his legs blown off...i think he was right ....and heroic.in a way...

 

He was definitely right an very honourable, I would say. But if one were considered a hero for having strong morals and respect for fighting soldiers, then I would be a hero too. (By which I'm saying that we shouldn't, don't get me wrong)

 

thats right roel ..above and beyond the call of duty..not merely doing your duty.i wonder ,,who is the most decorated liveing ww2 vet alive today.col hackworth was our top guy in the usa.but he just died last year...