Ice-T gives props to New Radicals

One of my old school heroes, not really, but someone I remember from my old school. Hero is one of those words people like to throw around. I mean, is every soldier who comes back from Iraq really a hero? I'm sure that some are, but are all? Hero is a word that should be reserved for people who do something extraordinary in extreme circumstances, where loss of life or limb is evident. For example, a couple of months ago a man waiting for a train in New York, with his two young daughters, saw a man fall on the tracks while having what later turned out to be an epileptic seizure. A train was coming and realizing that the man was going to die if he didn't act, jumped on the seizing man and held him down while the train passed overhead. If you compare that action to the action of a soldier in the "rear" whose main responsibility is to make sure the Humvees are gassed and have air in the tires, you will agree that one is a hero while the other is just doing his job. I certainly agree that any soldier, no matter what rank, deserves our combined respect and admiration, to call them heroes is disingenuous, and tarnishes this austere title.