"HEROES"

Let me first start off by saying this is not a verbal attack on our uniformed services! Just to be clear I believe our uniformed men and women to are some of the best! Which brings me to a subject I've always wanted to write about considering I witnessed it first hand in Oklahoma City! The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the changing the name of the Newwark Airport to Liberty International Airport would be a way of honoring "the more than 3,000 heroes who died for their country in the World Trade Center's? What about the stock trader, clerks, receptionists, cooks, waiters, and building maintenance people in the World Trade Center didn't they die for their country?. They died because they went to work. Much like Oklahoma City and other tragic events, we always tend to make the uniformed men and woman the HERO! We have parades for them, shower them with gifts, write articles on them and what they did! Name things after them! It really irritates me to see such an abuse of the HERO! Can't we just for once strip away the title HERO just because one is in uniform. And by no means did I do anything on April 19th 1995 to consider myself as a hero I did what any logical person would have done just "Be Human". Not so hard to do! I remember walking in this procession of people as I will call it! to an event right after April 19th 1995 and I remember looking over to the sidewalk and seeing people wave with tears in their eyes and I felt this rush come over me as to why I was there! I mean really I wasn't a hero? But I felt as if I was being looked at like a fish in a bowl, I didn't wear a uniform that day when all this took place? But there I was.... Survivor, Rescue Worker, Victim and HERO! Just think about this why wouldn't we name an Airport "911 Survivor Airport"? We have a tree in Oklahoma City named the survivor tree! Next time All are "HEROES". Just remember that..