In your opinion, "What is a Hero?"

Hero is the most over used word used today. I think it’s to overcompensate for how we treated Vietnam vets. Not everyone wearing a uniform is a hero. Just serving and performing your job does not make one a hero. I believe a hero is someone that goes above and beyond to save others.

Those that serve perform a noble job and deserve some measure of respect for it, but not the label hero.

I don't think it has anything to do with the medals you have earned our what not in the civilians eyes. The reason I say that most people don't have a clue what the medals we wear me. Not saying your medals and awards don't matter, I think as far as that goes that is more so for the military word to tell that story where you been and what you have went thru in your career. I think civilians think military are heroes because not everyone can do what we do in the military community! The deployments, the long hours at crazy hours from family, the training. In there eyes we protect there right to do and come as they please. Everyone can't join the military, so they look at it as we protect their freedoms, there families, there right of freedom of speech. Do I think I'm a hero no, why because I'm doing my job. But for that person who doesn't have a clue what we do and the only source they may have is what they see on the news, or Google in there eyes we are all heros, I won't tell them no I'm not! If that is there way of saying thank you well it's a good day. Think about the Vietnam era thousands died and when they returned home they were spited on and called baby killers. We have come a long way with what civilans understand the military to be!

What is a hero? A hero is a person that goes above and beyond the call of duty. They put others needs above their own. They don't ask for anything in return. Heroes are your everyday police officers, teachers, doctors, etc.

Hero is someone willing to sarifice for other.

Just like how i would say to a vets, you're a hero cause you're willing to put your life so other can live freely.

My personal definition of a hero, is someone who does what needs to be done, when it has to be done, despite pressures against action. This is countered by my definition of evil which is when someone fails to take action they know they should have, for whatever the reason or justification.

That you volunteer is a hero, they didn't.

Hero can be that you volunteered. They didn't.

“A hero is defined by performing missions with honor & courage.”

I would say a hero voluntarily puts themselves in personal danger in order to protect others, even when they don't have to do so.

Go to any national cemetery an look across the field of head stones; young lives taken and dreams of their youth forever lost. Their loss is our loss; the loss of what they might have been or done for the greater good of our country, the next Einstein, Hawking, Saulk. They are Hero's, with only you to be their voice.