A few months ago I wrote about my absolute abhorrence of the overuse of the word "hero". I think it does a great disservice to the individually heroic to label everyone a hero simply on the basis of their vocation alone.
I was taken to task by one reader for that, and understandably so. It's a tough subject to broach with one who is the parent of a soldier, sailor or airman. I respectfully stand by my words and humbly present those of another, of a man who knows what he's talking about first hand.
While I write comfortably from my chair, enjoying the freedom to be have an opinion and sometimes be wrong, he writes as one who served our country in West Germany, arriving at the Canadian Air Force base in Baden-Soellingen in 1970 just as my family was leaving, my father having served three years on that same Base.
Read Jock Williams' beautiful remembrance of Captain Paul Rackham, the first casualty to travel in 1973 what is now known as "The Highway of Heroes". http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/Remembrance_Day/accompanying-a-fallen-airman-the-highways-first-hero/article2230132/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2230132
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