while i did volunteer for the 20 y sausage grinder of electeddindp politics and continue to speak out i hardly view anything i have done at heroic. far from it. when i consider the actions of our service men and women i think of true heros. nd women, i think of true heros and not the phony heos that we create out of the celebrities or sports or politicings. i am talking real heros who are incredibly underpaid and underappreciate will do the extraordinary work while being shot out or driving over a crudely designed bomb that is disguised over the places they travel. in a split second notice they may be thrust in thuation where the lives of their closest friend and their own depend on their actions . if they end up to tell about it they might have a decoration on their chest but