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Originally Posted by Robbie
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.
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i get what you're saying. i think it's rampant in a lot of ways, like you do. i just recently commented here even that if i ran for president one of my campaign promises would be to get rid of those "my kid is an honor student at blah elementary school" bumper stickers. it's indicative of the over-labeling of hero status.
but you also do reinforce my view that there are some cases of pow where the pow gets hero status, like zamperini did. i do know mccain refused to be returned to the USA when his daddy pulled strings etc. staying, in support of and solidarity with his fellow POWs. there were some other things i can't recollect that he did while POW that are along those same lines.
i'm not saying these 2 POW veterans are on equal footing, but they both show that in certain circumstances, POWs get hero status. maybe mccain doesn't deserve hero status, but it really was a very poor choice of zing! on Trump's part.