http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-heroes_honorsep13,0,1934409.story

Crazy.  Some interesting quotes.

""I've seen too many people that, for five hours, or whatever, on a battlefield were heroes, and then they spent the rest of their life patting themselves on the back and ignoring their family, ignoring their wife, ignoring their children," adds Lynch, 63, who lives in Gurnee."

"In Vietnam, "disregarding his safety in the face of withering hostile fire," Lynch's citation reads, "he crossed 70 meters of exposed terrain five times to carry his wounded comrades to a more secure area.""

""The heroes are the fathers and the mothers that endure the mundane, daily grind of just getting up and going to work and being a father to their children and a mother to their children," Lynch says. "It's someone that goes to work every single day, and when he's unemployed ... doesn't just give up but tries desperately to make a living for their family. That's real heroism, that's sustained heroism."
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