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"Of course they are. I think that you are splitting some mighty fine hairs. "

You may be right.

But if everyone is a "hero" then no one is any more special than the other. That comes from the same line of thinking that wants to do away with scores and sporting events, grades in school, and "valedictorians" at graduation. They are the "we are all the same" people.

Well, I don't think we are all the same. The G.I. who stands up and storms and stonghold is more of a hero than the guy who stays in the foxhole in the fetal position.

The definition of bravery I like is, "Brave people are just as afraid as anyone else, but they forge ahead anyway.".

But I just can't see what is heroic about being wounded, per se. With that line of thinking, I could just stand up in my foxhole, just to get shot, and collect my Congressional Medal of Honor?

You can't say to a G.I. who charges ahead and single-handedly captures 30 of the enemy, saving his batallion, that "you are no more of a hero that that guy huddled in the foxhole."...that would be ridiculous.

If we are to celebrate and award heros, then there has to be some differentation between their accomplishments and those who were "just there".