Just watched an excellent WW2 movie

[DocHeb]

Sorry I disagree...sure they seem like "heros" to the people they may save but they know when they take on those (hazardous) jobs that they may have to put their lives in peril...they choose those professions...In fact I believe some of the people that take those jobs do it just for a chance to be called a hero.

IMO, what I refered to as heros in the context I posted are people that risked or gave their lives to save others out of the realm of their duty (above and beyond)...in the professions you cite that is part of the duty that they choose to participate in....there is a huge difference!

At the risk of being confrontational: Who is the greater hero - one who does great acts after being forced into a profession (drafted into the military), or one who does great acts after making a choice to work a certain job? I find it interesting that you would distinguish one over the other.

 

[/pine]

At the risk of being confrontational: Who is the greater hero - one who does great acts after being forced into a profession (drafted into the military), or one who does great acts after making a choice to work a certain job? I find it interesting that you would distinguish one over the other.

No confrontation taken or intended...just a matter of opinions...and my opinion is that anyone that willingly assumes a risk before the fact is NOT a hero (after the fact) in the context that I first posted...granted that if a firefighter caries an unconscious person out of a burning building that firefighter is most likely a hero in the eyes of the person he saved but not in my opinion...in my opinion the firefighter was just doing their job/duty...

drafted into the military

this is an assumption...there are lots of civilian heros that have risked or lost thier lives helping others in life or death situations that were not required to do so as part of their jobs...there is a distinguished difference IMO...

 

[QRTRHRS]

The Lost Battalion is a good one about a WWI unit that got caught behind enemy lines. If I recall, it is based on a true story. The unit is made up of Irish, Italian, etc., guys from New York City. I saw it on A&E a few years back.

 

[chamisi]

my dad was a WWII pow in the pacific theater they don't make them like that any more he was tough as nails he built the railroad from Burma to Thailand ever seen the fictitious movie bridge on a river Kwai

 

[weldingisfun]

I rented and watched Defiance last night. While a good movie and well done but not nearly as good as Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan. Still worth watching and learning about what the human spirit will do to survive.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I watched this the other night.

And speaking of Private Ryan, I watched it rented from Netflix and to my surprise there was some Czech language. When the Germans run from the trenches with hands up, they yell in czech - Do not shoot, I did not kill anybody - and they shoot them anyway.

The story is, there were some Czech stunt men who got a small role in the movie as a reward) But it is historically correct to some extent, there were some foreigners defending the Atlantic wall.