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Joshua Lawrence Lazard

I know it’s old news, but this was a topic I had intended to weigh in and offer my opinion.

In case you missed it, last week MSNBC host Chris Hayes’ made some comments about the word “hero” attached to the word “soldier.”  I remember reading the initial story from a couple of tweets and I oddly enough agreed with him.  The story got back to me initially that he was taking umbrage with the fact that “hero” was overused in the context of American soldiers.  My kneejerk reaction was to agree with him.  But here’s the following quote that Hayes’ said:

I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words “heroes.” Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word “hero”? I feel comfortable — uncomfortable — about the word because…

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