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Originally Posted by dyna mo
no worries, amigo. i know you didn't mean it personal, i just wanted to clarify i didn't think my view was emotionally charged.
louis zamperini was a ww2 pow in japan, he achieved tons of awards and hero status and more for simply surviving a mechanical failure that led to his bomber ditching in the ocean that led to his capture.
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I loved that movie. It was tremendously inspirational (Unbroken was the name of it right?)
But didn't he become a "hero" by not cooperating with his Nazi captors and being an inspiration to the other prisoners? That and the fact that he was already "famous" as an Olympic athlete before the war.
At least that's what happened in the movie. Before that...I never heard of the guy.
But you know what I mean.
Everybody is a hero. Everybody is a winner just for trying.
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" doesn't mean just nuclear weapons anymore.
Every guy that does something crazy and bad is now a "terrorist"
Just seems like definitions and perceptions are being changed and the bar is being lowered instead of raised in that respect.
Maybe that happens in cycles and we're just in one of those cycles before the pendulum swings back the other way.