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He's a hero, not for getting killed in a war, But for what he put 1st . I think he was classified a hero when he gave up his life and career here to fight for what he believed was right. Not when his life ended. In a day when the world seems to worship the spoiled and talented. this guy, as anonomously as he could, gave it all up to be with his brother and do what HE, not the rest of the world, thought was right.
I agree, we throw the term "hero" around a lot. But I'd rather see my son use it in Tilman's or any other soldier's case than in Michael Jordan's or any other athletes case.
We use it, and Rightfully so, to describe anyone serving over there right now. Are we supposed to NOT use it for Tilman because he was famous. Everybody over there volunteered, not just him. And I've heard everybody on this site as well as everywhere else call them heros, and they are.
Tilman had what a lot of people don't and that is integrity. That U-Mass kid should be bitch-slapped for ever calling that into question.
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