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People use the word, "hero" often.  I think a hero is not a person who goes to war out of obligation, but a person who goes to war and provides people with a leader and/or a sense of hope.  A person they can look to in times of doubt.  A person they eagerly await to follow.  Someone they trust with their lives because he has proved himself.  He walks in front of his men in battle and steps on the ground before them only to step off the war field after all of his men have left.  A leader is heroic if he truly leads.  In the case of Major Winters, he is a hero because he did all of these things and also gave hope and compassion to his men. 

"I cherish the memory of something my grandson said to me the other day. He asked me, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said, 'No, but I served in a company of heroes.'"

-Major Winters quoting a letter sent to to him by one of his men.