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Originally Posted by eqpablon 
A hero doesn't tap his chest and let you know that he recieved a Purple Heart. A hero will never regale you with "war stories". They will never tell you about the time their buddy was shot, and the sick empty feeling one gets as he helplessly held his buddy in his arms and watched his best friend take his last breath. A hero doesn't come home and tell his friends about the time he had to recover body parts from the latest Vehicle Borne IED blast to hit his platoons patrol. Never going into detail about how IED blasts can literally cause the skin to melt and attach the victim to the seat fabric so that you have to rip the deceased driver out of the chair as if the driver was velcro'd in place.
Fuck those medal tappers. Sadly it appears not many of you know any "hero's".
I served in the Infantry, I know a few hero's; some recognized and awarded as such, and others not. If you do want to play the medal game, the only ones that tend to indicate "heroism" would have a "V" (valor) device attached. A CPT serving on administrative staff will get a Bronze Star just for deploying, not heroic.
Fuck those medal tappers. Sadly it appears not many of you know any "hero's".
I served in the Infantry, I know a few hero's; some recognized and awarded as such, and others not. If you do want to play the medal game, the only ones that tend to indicate "heroism" would have a "V" (valor) device attached. A CPT serving on administrative staff will get a Bronze Star just for deploying, not heroic.
Thank you. I do know of one such hero. He didn't make it back from Iraq alive but I know if he had he would have rolled his eyes at the mention of his medals and got back to work. As it is, his posthumous medals will hopefully be a comfort to his daughter in the years to come.
