I am fairly certian this thread will die out soon, mainly cause just about everything has been discussed.
Simply put it seems that we just can't aggree what exactly is a hero/extraordinary, we each percieve those words differently. For me those two words carry a lot of wieght and thus I don't give such praise easily. I may admire someone without thinking they are extraordinary or a hero.
The soldiers do do stuff that I would not want or could not do, and for that they deserve respect, which people, imo, should have for oneanother(to varing degrees). But that still does not make them extraordinary, or even a better a person. Just that they have a different meem of what is acceptable to give up. To take injury or to lose some liberties(I won't say life since we aggree no one tends to think "oh I will die") I can do under many circumstances.. and I am far from extraordinary. The only thing is I have certian things that I won't give up/can't give up cause they are such an intricate part. And one of them is free-thought/action. This partially stems from that in feilds I am adjusted to many times I am right, even if someone with more experience says I am not (recently happened too).
If neccesarily I could try and describe what exactly is constituted as extraordinary but for me to do so would require a heck of a lot of writing and explaining of my personal "grading" system.
