When someone is called a war hero, people immediately begin to have respect for him. This phrase carries courage and valor, is admirable. Heroes are not ordinary people, but those who perform feats.
War heroes perform feats in war. Being a war hero is a great achievement. Any war has its heroes, whose names are immortalized in memorials, books, films. Songs are composed about heroes, idealizing their images so much that people begin to consider the actions of the heroes as really something outstanding, out of the ordinary, unattainable, unthinkable. Meanwhile, when a hero performs a feat, he does not think about his heroism and about the fact that he is doing something special. He just does what he considers necessary at the moment. The memory of the war heroes and their exploits lives through the centuries, is immortalized in granite and bronze, and in the hearts of people who, thanks to their heroic deeds, may have survived.
How they become heroes
War heroes are not super-heroes with superpowered abilities, but the same people, just like the rest, only caught in certain circumstances and accomplished a feat. Heroes are definitely not born, they become. Why, in the context of hostilities, does someone become a hero, and someone does not? Because potential heroes cultivate courage, kindness, responsiveness, self-sacrifice. In all world wars, ordinary soldiers participate, often young guys who do not have military skills. But at the cost of their lives, they fulfilled the assigned tasks, leading entire states to victory. The war hero is the savior of lives. Thousands or one, it doesn't matter. Heroism is the willingness to sacrifice one's life for the sake of another person. This is fearlessness and courage. This is the belief that "our cause is right."
Who is considered a war hero
According to a survey of the Russian magazine "Expertise of Power", conducted among young people, to the question "Whom do you consider a hero, an example of courage and patriotism?" 62% of respondents named the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. But not only those who went to the tanks with their chest, were the heroes of the war. Nurses and donors, pioneer heroes, those who worked in the rear for 20 hours for the front. All who, by their labor, their daily feat, brought the victory closer, were considered heroes of the war. They were awarded orders, medals, honorary titles, and many were awarded posthumously.
Today even the younger generation knows and remembers the war and understands that the future of not only a single family, but also the future of the country as a whole, depended on the actions of each of the fighters. After all, when a state loses a war, when it is captured by another state, it can not only be enslaved, changed beyond recognition, but also wiped off the face of the earth.
