On 2020-05-30 8:17 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Taxed and Spent wrote:

>> so what? He still works four days a week, 12 hours a day.
>
> Confusing there.
> First he works 3 12-hour days (Mon, Tue, and Thurs)
> and now it's 4 12-hour days (Sat, Sun, Wed and Fri)
>
> Most likely, his days will change occasionally.
>
> John is working in healthcare now. Does this make him
> a hero? That's the latest definition of the word.
> The most misused word in modern history, imo.
> Even grocery store clerks are heroes now.

I have to agree with you there. Up here is seems that anyone who dies
while a member of the armed forces is called a hero. It could be someone
who was cut down while singlehandedly taking our a machine gun nest, a
guard at a monument who is murdered while on ceremonial guard duty at a
monument or a press officer who is a passenger in a jet aircraft that
crashes. No one seems to want to deny them the hero title by expecting
the deed to be above a certain bar, so they drop the bar and give it to
everyone.

There was an interesting case of inappropriately crediting someone as a
hero during the Gulf War. Jessica Lynch was supposed to have been a
hero who fought off ambushing insurgents until she was out of ammo or
the gun jammed. She was hauled off as a POW , raped and tortured and
then rescued by Special Forces Unit. The rescue was well documented for
the news audience back home as they moved in, kicking down doors and all
that gung ho stuff.

Jessica's personal story is quite different. The was a passenger in a
vehicle in a convoy that was lost and bumbled into a enemy position. She
was thrown out of the vehicle and broke her leg. The Iraqis took her to
a hospital and looked after her. They did not have the supplies or
facilities to look after her so they reached out to the Americans to
tell them to come and get her. They could have just driven up but they
had to make a story out of it and staged the phony rescue raid.


Jessica was a great American female hero when she came home, but the
story disappeared when she went public about what had really happened.