Call me anti-patriotic if you will, but has anyone else noticed that the word Hero is grossly over used and used incorrectly? I mean the fireme and police who died on September Eleventh, they were heroes, the soldiers who chose to go fight a war in a country they have no stock in, they are heroes, but when I was in Killeen over the weekend and those journalist were returned to the FOX news people, they were called heroes. If anything they were just unlucky. They were definately not heroes since not only did they manage to get captured, but they managed to convert themselves to Islam to get out of it.
While I am on the subject, the word coward is over used. I remember when you used to watch America's Most wanted you would here John Walsh call the killer a coward, sometimes they might have been. But I mean there are some guys who are riding around with body parts in his trunk and has bad tags on his car, that killer is not a coward. As unethical as his moves may be, he could be called plenty of other words, psychopath, asshole, sicko...but coward doesn't fit.
They call suicide the cowards way out, but there really aren't that many brave people in the world. If suicide didn't take some level of extreme balls or hopelessness, then there would be people getting nervous and killing themselves over all kinds of things. So before you use one of these words, think about its meaning, the real meaning.
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