Who do you admire… like as your heroes?

@DrWatson posted something about astronauts that got me to remembering heroes I've known and respected.

Mine are probably unusual people to most and aren’t by any means famous, not in a traditional sense.

They are the pilots of helicopter gunships, medevacs, and close air support fighter pilots.

They truly go where angels fear to tread, and do it again and again with no thought for themselves.

They are my unsung heroes.

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helenS · 36-40, F

At the moment I admire IDF women and men in Gaza. They risk their lives to find and kill those Hamas butchers. And the "progressive" world cries "genocide"...

MrAverage1965 · 61-69, M

@helenS With no regard for the women and children who are killed in the process. Were they never taught "Two wrongs don't make a right"?

helenS · 36-40, F

@MrAverage1965 I assume you refer to the women and children behind which the butchers are hiding?

Ontheroad · M

@MrAverage1965 Really? So, you know the members of the IDF act "With no regard for the women and children who are killed in the process"? I'd suggest you have no idea how soldiers feel when they are ordered into combat, never mind the heart wrenching damage done to their souls by doing what must be done.

Never mind that Hamas did exactly this, continues to do this, and hides behind the women and children, essentially using them as cannon fodder.

helenS · 36-40, F

@Ontheroad Yes – IDF could easily get rid of the whole Gaza/Hamas problem in 60 minutes if they [u]really[/u] disregarded the lives of women and children.