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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I agree 100%
A hero in my eyes is anyone who risks their own life to save a stranger. If a child that can't swim falls into a river and one of his parents jumps in to save the kid, that is NOT a hero, that is doing your job as a parent. If the kid is not your own and you risk your life to save the kid, that is a hero.
I see news stories at least once a year where some kid dialed 911 when a parent needed help. The news media calls the kid a hero but I disagree. No risk of injury and doing what any kid should do does not make a hero.
I fireman running into a building to save strangers is a brave and honorable man, but not a hero. He is just doing his job. He took that job knowing it was a real possibility he would be required to do that.
A hero in my mind is someone that risked injury or death to save a person that they are not related to and they are not a paid professional doing their job and in fact are not expecting any compensation.
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By that measure no soldier is a hero.
I guess Audie Murphy, Mike Daly, Ola Mize, Robert Foley and many others should go turn in their CMHs.
Carter