[xJones]

I don't even know if SSGT Hicks was decorated for what he did....I suspect not...but Hicks could've cared less for that kind of attention..

He already had more combat medals than any other of our DI's

The real heros never talk about themselves, never talk about their actions, period. Only faux 'heros' like Kerry brag.

[HKMk23]

If only that future generations might know what constitutes a real hero, I wish men like Hicks would at least write a private memoir for their family, even if it were to remain sealed until after their passing.

We're losing great stories of honor and valor every week as they pass into eternity along with the men who lived and crafted them with their own flesh and blood.

The annals of history are the more impoverished being thus incomplete, and that without remedy.

If you have an old fighting man in your family, implore him with all that is in you to commit his tales to paper at least. Who knows but that a young man -- maybe his own great grandson -- may someday need his example to guide him?

A substantive portion of our National Treasure are our elderly and the stories of their lives, the bulk of which, to our shame, pass into eternity untold.