When I read the title to this thread my first though went to a "Big Gun" Chuck Yeager. After reading a bit, my scope narrowed a wee bit. I thought of my Father. He was assigned as a corporal to a brand new thing in Korea. Radar guided artillery counter battery. For those not up on all things military, they used radar to detect incomming shells and directed our big guns on the reverse trajectory.

Another thought went to a name I didn't know. The pbi in Iraq or Bosnia, or Afganastan, or where ever, that uses his own body to shield a buddy, a child, or a civillan from incomming fire.

Those are my heroes.

It happens every day. We never see it or hear about it, but the soldiers, sailors, marines and air men are in fact heroes.