Has the Dictionary Been Updated?
November 6, 2015
While checking out at the grocery store this morning I was asked if I wanted to contribute a dollar toward our heroes. No mention was even made of the military, although that is exactly what the cashier was referring to. Has the dictionary been updated? What about Roget’s Thesaurus? “Hero” is now apparently a synonym for “soldier.” But as I have written about scores of times, just being a soldier doesn’t make you a hero. And doing something brave in an unjust and immoral war doesn’t make you a hero either.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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