A Hero’s More Than a Sandwich


	A Hero’s More Than a Sandwich

infidel70

5-25-2009 10:17 PM

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infidel70 says:

FTA: The point to all this is that you do not turn anyone into a hero simply by calling him one. All you really accomplish is to so totally cheapen the word as to make it meaningless when the real thing comes along.

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