American Soldiers Are Heroes

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Current global trends on communication, disaster management, information dissemination and internet interaction suggest it should be extremely difficult for one to determine at first glance that America lacks heroes. America has and always will have heroes. American Soldiers are heroes (Daugherty 195).
The difference in the crop of heroes America has and those that some individuals would like to see is nothing but time. Present day heroes comprised of various ages, are heroic in a society where the thought pattern is divergent and every actor in the mesh tries his best to get himself a niche that would make the others know that the former also exists in the play. Either directly or indirectly, individuals seek to be the center of attraction. …show more content…

Gibbon tries consistently to relate the lack of heroes to the current journalist. He claims that the journalist of today wants to be a celebrity and look for fame instead of leaving that to the politicians and lawyers. He seems not to get the real issue behind the quote by Walter Winchell when he said that those who do write the right things or moral stories have no huge fan base of readers. Journalism is like any other career and most journalists are out there to make a living. This means they only look for their strongest selling points. One would only edge out peers by doing that which is out of the ordinary, just like any other hero would do. If members of in the media fraternity ,or as a journalist, thinks that telling the public what you have for them is the way to go, then it takes something creative to give you an edge above them. Modern heroes include contemporary African politicians (Scott-Childress …show more content…

It is expected that people adapt or evolve with changes. The changes in technology and information dissemination means a new breed of heroes have the place. It is not a place for them who stood on public telephone booths but those who sit behind computer screens to protect classified information from being stolen by spies. The time for crashing CNN telephone switchboard is over. If one does not like or agree with what is being aired on CNN, he has the liberty to watch ABC News. The person who made this possible is - hero just like those who won the Olympics. America does not lack heroes. The criteria may be different as to who is a hero to whom, but as with the current times, American heroes exist! Just like America it has in the

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