I Don't Believe Soldiers Are Heroes

We can go back and forth about this all day. No one likes war, I admit it there is nothing to like about it. But don't take it out on the heros. You can have your own opinion. Thats your thoughts and I can't change that. But that gives...

A few words of support from Across the pond. American politicians frequently take bad decisions and make mistakes. They're are human but the world is a much safer place because of two countries Great Britain and the United States of...

thought i'd might as well make a story about it considering its just getting filled with crap.
the point of this group was orginally that people who join the military aren't automaticly heros. you have to earn it first, soldiers have...

All I can say is that with the words, "I am an American Soldier" comes a great sense of pride, dignity, and honor. There are those that would argue that the youth are brain-washed or forced into serving, but I can assure those people...

Theres a line about soldiers in an Irish pub song called Billy Bones  "crying over the darling little boys and girls"  its used after the whole songs been spent describing a violent horrible man who joined the army for the hell of...

one. how many individual soldiers to you know who decided right i am going in the army to fight for my country ?
two. how many do you know went in to boost their ego ?
three. how is promoting war heroic ? if their was no soldiers no-one...

l beg to differ. This is really disrespectful to everyone who followed his/her ideals to help his/her country or someone else's country, who gave blood and even his life for someone else. Soldiers are the only kind of person that's not...

A Child's Guide To United States Foreign Policy

Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction honey.
Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That's...

I don't believe that just being a soldier automatically qualifies you to be called a hero. I think you kinda have to actually do something to earn that. It would be like saying oranges are fruit therefore all fruit are oranges. Doesn...

A hero is someone who does something Heroic. Generally,  humanity seems to like altruistic heroism.
My take on Soldiering as a profession is as follows. Unless you're conscripted. That's another matter.
Soldiers follow orders...

Really???
You don't think soldiers are heros?
What ashame. Y don't you try defending your country then?? I can't believe someone would even make a group like this. They fight for your freedom!!!
I believe you would be singing a...

I'm in Canada and every time a US solider dies it's splashed all over the news and everybody automatically labels that soldier a hero. It's like how many innocent Middle Eastern citizens did that one soldier kill (or accidentally catch...

If you don’t want to stand behind them, feel free to stand in front of them.

I’ve been horrified by the number of people who automatically judge me or my boyfriend when they find out he’s in the military. It’s...

I have a differen't view.  I believe soldiers are heroes.

Anyone who says our soldiers are not heroes should be completely ashamed of themselves. It takes a selfless kind of soul to sign up to voluntarily go to war. My grandfather was a WWII veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge. My...

How can anyone say that no soldiers are heroes? If that isn't than what is? In the World Wars it wasn't about oil or money, it was about freedom. If the soldiers didn't stop the Nazis in WWll, there would be no freedom, and many, many...

These people are in other countries, killing, stealing and disrespecting.
They're going in there because the government tells them to. They're not fighting for ANYTHING to do with peace, freedom or love, they're there to get what their...