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Originally posted by Carrie@Nov 7 2003, 03:02 AM
I don't think you have to come home in a body bag to be a hero. I am thankful to everyone - man or woman - who has put on a uniform and protected my freedom. They're all heros to me and deserve to be treated a lot better than what they get.
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I couldn't agree with you more Carrie. They do deserve to be treated better than they have been in the past. But I will give you three military men that are true heros in my own eyes
Sgt York, this man did things that are truely unbelieveable. A hero to the bone who could never accept it.
Chesty Puller, Every Jarheads definition of a true Marine. This man had so many ribbons and medals to where them all they would have wrapped over his shoulders and onto his back. He had to get a Presidential approval to go to formal functions and NOT WEAR all of them.
My Dad. 1 Silver Star (with a "V") 2 Bronze stars (with oak leaf clusters) 4 Purple Hearts, all from Nam. He showed me continuously what true strength of character really is, and put in me a desire to be 'one of the best' at anything I do.
As a former military man myself, I can say that if I were in the situation Jessica finds herself in, I would be kind of embarrassed by the attention. I am not saying how she should or shouldnt act. Only how Iwould. I would feel that I was only doing my job, surviving with my life, and coming back home to my family.
I don't know, maybe my standard of what a hero is is a bit to high.
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Spaz, she is saying that she doesn't remember him whatsoever, and claims that she *does* remember all of the people she interacted with in the hospital. This is probably part of the "blocking out" that she's done, or he simply didn't go into her room and speak with her like he said he did. Perhaps he exagerrated that part a bit for dramatics and really just stood outside her room looking in through the glass.
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That could all be true, but even if he stood outside her window jerking off he still put his own life at risk to get the info to he Marines, not once, but twice (they told him to go back and get more intel) That takes some brass ones in my old weak eyes
spaz