Posted on 05/08/2020 10:25:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I’ve never been fond of how we throw the word “hero” around. When I was growing up, it seems like we reserved the word for extraordinary acts of sacrifice — someone running into a burning building to save a child or a young man giving his life to save his fellow soldiers on the battlefield.
In these days of coronavirus, the word “hero” has been used non-stop to describe doctors and nurses working on the “front lines”. We’re even calling our teachers heroes. I guess I don’t mind all that much. I understand the sentiment. I suppose it’s quite easy to look at a picture of a tired doctor at the end of a long day in ICU and call him a hero for sticking out the job he gets paid to do. We can look at his fatigue, his crumpled scrubs, the lines on his face from his mask and we can see the sacrifice right there on his face. We can measure his impact because what he does has immediate outcomes in real-time.
It is far more difficult for some starry-eyed, millennial opinion writer with a brand new thesaurus and a gig at The New York Times to look at a father schlepping back and forth to his office job every day and see a hero. That writer probably sees a bored man, or a defeated man, or an uninteresting man who doesn’t have an immediate impact on those around him….certainly not the way a doctor does. His heroism is invisible, because you can’t make a commercial out of it. His service, his bravery is spread out over an entire lifetime, not just one crisis.
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The GREATEST COLLECTIVE in the history of civilization is the family. If you see one, smile. No, I’m not talking Manson family. : )
Yep, makes me smile when i see a man and a women with a child or 2.
And they look reasonably happy and healthy.
Feminism has separated many fathers from their families.
The Nuclear Family has been, and is, the primary focus of the culture war. Socialists, and their useful tool feminists, have been attacking the family relentlessly for decades.
Especially targeted are fathers and married women, but I don't think the hero label is of any meaning here. A hero participation trophy doesn't mean much to those tough enough to swim counter-culture already.
Likewise, Leep. Hope for a pro-life future, but it will be a challenge.
Thank you for posting.
A very touching article. Makes me think of my wonderful parents and the sacrifices they made for me and my siblings.
Reading this made me weep. So touching. I owe everything good in me and every accomplishment i ever had to my parents. Unconditional love. If only I could be as good a parent as they were. Thank you for posting.
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