Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal and excepted action just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not the case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's? They did their jobs, what was expected of them.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. He said no! I asked why not. In a way, with a look that I will never forget, like time had stopped, he looked at me sternly, and said, man, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again.

He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up sometimes stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost at times come to tears, and I'd never seen my daddy cry.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.

Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal and excepted action just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not the case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's? They did their jobs, what was expected of them.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. He said no! I asked why not. In a way, with a look that I will never forget, like time had stopped, he looked at me sternly, and said, man, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again.

He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up sometimes stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost at times come to tears, and I'd never seen my daddy cry.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.

Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal and excepted action just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not the case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's? They did their jobs, what was expected of them.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. He said no! I asked why not. In a way, with a look that I will never forget, like time had stopped, he looked at me sternly, and said, man, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again.

He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up sometimes stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost at times come to tears.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.

Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal and excepted action just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not the case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's? They did their jobs, what was expected of them.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. In a way, with a look that I will never forget, like time had stopped, he looked at me sternly, and said, man, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again.

He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up sometimes stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost at times come to tears.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.

Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal and excepted action just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not the case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's? They did their jobs, what was expected of them.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. He said no, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again. He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up sometimes stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost at times come to tears.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.

Same here. Most of of the things called heroic acts today are just people doing what any decent person would be expected to do in the normal course of life.

Bob is a hero for jumping in the pool and saving the toddler. The only way Bob would be a hero is if it was perfectly normal just to stand by the pool, do nothing and watch the toddler drowned, but that not he case, yet.

Space Shuttle launch broadcast commonly used the term, Hero Astronauts. What did they do that made them hero's, but their job.

Different time over the years, in our little one redlight town, I tried to get my father to attend the "Honor WWII Vets" events. He would not go. He had metals, he had a right to be honored.

One year, during a Forth of July celebration, they planed one such event. I begged him to go, he would not. I asked why. And he just told me that the felt to bring any attention to himself dishonored all those who did not make it home.

I though about that for a while, and came to the regrettably conclusion that I did not want him to go to honor what he had done, I wanted him to go so I could be stand beside him as a proud son. In other words for my own satisfaction. I think that was selfish of me.

I remember when Saving Private Ryan come out. I asked him if he wanted to go see it. He said no, when you've seen that stuff in real life, you don't ever want to see anything like it again. He was a strong man of mind, and of will. He kept the nightmares of war buried all his life up until near his death when he started to weaken. He would wake up stare at the wall and get a visibly disturbed look on his face and almost come to tears.

Someone years ago, someone had made a nice case and mounted his ribbons and medal, his DD-214 and a newspaper clipping of him coming home from the war. It's not something he would have done himself. But when we set him up in the room where he eventually died, someone had put this up on the wall in that room. One day he ask us to move it somewhere else, said that seeing it brought back the nightmares that he had just after the war, that he had managed to bury. When we move the display to somewhere else, his nightmares stopped.

Sorry for the long story.