A hero tolerating a zero.
Exactly.
Spent about a year and a half as a Red Cross volunteer at Walter Reed during Desert Storm on ward 52, the amputation ward.
For the past 3 years I've been involved in a group that volunteers once a month bring lunch to the W.R. staff, patients and their families on Saturday's when the cafeteria is closed.
My respect for our first responders is through the roof and then some, on steroids.