Hi Lee, >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. They get my vote for role models. When they do something heroic, they get my vote for heroes. > 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. Precisely my sentiment about Jessica Lynch. >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. Don't know how many have gotten away with that, but I get your point. Bjorn