The Night of Heroes

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It seems that tonight, instead of thinking of one person or two from my personal past, my mind just keeps coming back to all those soldiers, sailors, and airmen who have lost their lives in our recent wars - of all those men or women who darted back into harm's way to save a comrade, who volunteered for an IA so someone else wouldn't have to, of those who safely made it back home only to die of fear, of torment, of emotional scars too heavy to bear in the world we are accustomed to on this side of the ocean.

They are all heroes.