> No question about that. And maybe some of them were heroes, too. But if
you
> re-read what I said above, my objection is with the increasing tendency to
> declare every firefighter and policeman a hero by affiliation. Hope that
> clarifies.

It does.  Personally, I tend to think police and firefighters are heros, at
least until I find that they are not.  It is their job to put their life at
risk for the life and property of others and, as long as they do that job,
they get my vote.  There are, however, more than a few who have walked away
from their responsibility when the time to earn their pay came along.  Not
only are they not heros, if it were up to me, they would be unemployed.

I don't necessarily think it's anybody's responsibility to put their life on
the line for another, but those that accept the pay, kind of need to accept
what goes with it.

Chuck, you may have understood Bjorn, but what I said was not what you
think.  I was referring to those who have taken the government's money for
years, all the time, knowing that there was a chance that they would be
called on to go to war and, when the call came, did not fulfill their
obligation.  Not everybody, volunteer or otherwise, went when called.

Lee