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This won't be popular, I look at it differently.

I was a soldier for a long time. I didn't do it for country, flag or as a sacrifice. I did it because I wanted to and I was pretty good at it and it beat working on a rig.

I consider the man who gets up every day and goes to work and does it to the best of his ability and takes care of his family the true heroes. The one who takes pride in the quality of his work. The guys struggling in a college degree world with out one but making sure their kids have chances they didn't have. The people who teach their kids to be good citizens.

That mother who skint her kid up for being at the riot in Baltimore is far more of a hero than I'll ever be.

There are heroic acts, usually thrust on us by situations. But to be a hero, I think you have to endure the grind.

My father was one of those. Fortunately I recognized it before he passed and had the opportunity to tell him.