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Originally posted by directfiesta
Being captured while driving a truck makes someone a hero ????
Even she said she wasn't....
A hero is somebody that voluntarely and knowingly sacrifices or risks his life in an exceptional way and for an exceptional cause.
They took a wrong turn because they couldn't read a map !!!
Hero my ass.
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She did "voluntarily and knowingly" risk her life in an exceptional way (less than 1% of the poplulation ever serve in the military) and the cause in Iraq is exceptional. She was a hero...as are all that serve...even during peacetime. Was she a hero as in "above and beyond the call of duty"...no.