This is a courageous article worthy of admiration. In the meantime, I think it might be more accurate to say those who run this country are making victims out of heroes. They are both.

They are heroic because they joined the armed forces knowing their lives could be on the line and because some of them ended up giving their lives believing that it was for a noble cause. They are also victims because their sacrifice was for an ugly cause the assertion of the American empire with its insatiable greed for more and more profit and control.