How about fathers that don't go to afghanistan but stay home work 2 jobs to put food on the table for their kids and making sure they'll be alive and well to watch them grow up? does that qualify as heroism?
To their kids maybe... I'd say that if you're a father, that it's your JOB.
I know it's mine.
Fuck my 15 yr old has been talking about joining the military for the past 3 yrs..........I'm doing everything I can to make sure he doesn't.
I don't need to bury my kid before I die.fuck that.
That's the one thing I want to make sure of... They see me die... Not the other way around.
I'll try to talk my kid out of it as well, but if he makes a choice to do it, I won't stand in his way... I will respect his decision, wish him well, and say godspeed for his safe return.