re: #64 ArmyWife

I’m sure he was loved by his friends and family. I’m sure he was a respectable human being, a good person. But not a hero. This doesn’t, however, distract from his senseless death.

He was most ceertainly a hero to women whose lives and health he saved when they couldn’t find other doctors who would dare to help them, at the risk, and ultimately the loss, of his own life. In the military, such a sacrifice is known as laying down the last full measure of one’s devotion.

A hero to them he was. And a martyr for what he believed was right.