Still arguing over who is a hero???
I stand by my earlier statement. You're all heroes, Somewhere along the line you were (probably) all a hero at some time in your life to someone.
Take it or leave it. :smil:
That, is what I call a really "bullet proof" defense (no pun intended). I would certainly believe him.I think soldiers are heros. Certainly here in Russia a survey already showed that people are 80% more likely to trust the word of a man in camouflage than one in a suit Fact. ---snip---
Kvachkov was tried four times and acquitted by jury each time... His main defense: "If we wanted to kill him, he would be dead today."
That man is our hero, at least.
Good post AZ. Can't knock that.
But would you consider that volunteering for the battle- front is an heroic calling?
I also liked your Facebook reference. Some of us screw up big-time; the moving finger writes, and then moves on. But every one of us is unique.
Yet that doesn't mean all soliders aren't heroes, as the group's name suggests
Most heroes are shipped back home in a box, so thanks God that soldiers are not automaticly heroes.
And then again, how can you tell a hero from a coward, or any regular man/woman serving somewhere?
Not by medals, that's for sure!
Just have a look at the pictures of Kim Jong Il and his staff of North Korean Christmas trees, wonder what they have done to be decorated like that...
So what makes a hero?
During WWII the RAF tried to bomb the Gestapo headquarter in Oslo, tricky task as the building was located in the centre of the city, surrounded by a lot of apartment buildings in the same block.
And sure enough, bombs went astray and made carnage everywhere else than in the Gestapo HQ.. :-(
While cleaning up the mess, they found the remains of a German soldier in a park close to where one of the bombs fell, on his knees, curled up in a kind of fetus position.
When they started picking him up in order to put him on a stretcher they discovered a girl (age 3-4 years) in his arms, clenched tight to his chest, and alive!
An eyewitness who survived mentioned seeing a german soldier running accross the street and snatching this little girl from the sidewalk as he ran into the park just seconds before the bomb fell.
I don't know if they ever managed to identify him, and in the headlines on page 5 he wasn't mentioned by name, there were plenty of casualties in the chaos that night.
Nobody will ever know if this was an act of heroism, or if he just acted out of instinct, for all I know it could have just been the natural thing for him to do.
Now he's dead and forgotten, no medal, just a grave along with a lot of others.
And as we did our best to demonize the Germans at the end of the war, records of him no longer exists.
Has anyone looked at this site recently.
I just had a look, and I'd say that they are not fairing very well in the promotion of their chosen cause and are gettting it in the neck, from almost every side.
soldiers and officers are the war heros -snip-
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