A Salute to Our Living Heroes

What does it take to make a hero?
Must he fight the enemy hand to hand?
No! He first becomes a hero
When he determines to take a stand!

He may not have knocked out a pill box
Or charged up ‘San Juan Hill’
But he did the job assigned him;
He had duties to fulfill!

Inside each man or woman
Who wears a uniform,
There resides a national hero;
The potential is the norm.

All heroes don’t die in battle,
Some stand at their graves and cry.
They too, are willing; they do their job!
A hero doesn’t always die!

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