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They are also a vanishing breed: the war hero. Soldiers surely acted exemplarily in Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq, but each of those conflicts exhausted the rooting interest of the American public, which eventually went looking not for battlefield derring-do but for statesmen who could clean up the mess. Eastwood's compassionate, cautionary tale speaks eloquently about a time when America needed heroes, and does so when we are no longer sure what they look like--when the indelible photo op of the Iraq war is from Abu Ghraib...
...fell into the family's pool. (Smith was an assistant at Arizona State.) Though afraid of water, Smith jumped in and pulled a tiny blue body from the bottom. MaryAnne's CPR resuscitated the boy. Matthew, now a student at Northwestern, had all but drowned. "I was no hero," Smith says. "I let my guard down. Luckily, we were able to make a wrong right...
Weisskopf is a hero. I'm a retired Veterans Administration clinical social worker who treated war heroes for 40 years. I know what they are made of. Besides the valor he demonstrated by saving lives, he is putting his life back together after a horrific trauma. Like the great war correspondent Ernie Pyle, Weisskopf chose the heart of the battle zone to profile the armed forces. Anyone who has read Weisskopf's story should be able to appreciate the heroism of our armed forces and veterans...
...change the subject a little bit. You've played a lot of heroes in movies. But can you name anywhere you played an entirely unambiguous hero...
...looking at a postwar mentality and maybe just a different generation. It's not like High Noon, where the guy's a wonderful sheriff. Everybody loved him. He had saved the town. And the town deserts him when he needs them. I love that picture--but that hero does not exist in me. I don't see heroes that...