You are reading my mind. Same goes with the term hero. Overused to the point of being meaningless.
We are of the same mind. See my longstanding Freep page.
Yes. It used to be that our heroes were those who had chosen danger for the safety of others.
Now it seems as if our ‘heroes’ are our victims—innocents who were killed needlessly. Now they are the ones we create ever greater memorials for.