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Chris Hayes: I'm 'Uncomfortable' Calling Fallen Military 'Heroes'
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BurfordTJustice
May 28, 2012, 4:28:16 AM5/28/12
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Another one of MSNBS's girly men...
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/chris-hayes-im-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-military-heroes
CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that'll be happening
tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who
was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible].
Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it's interesting because I think it is
very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking
valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel
so comfortable [sic] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable, ah,
uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so
rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want
to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and
obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine,
tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things
like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is
problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/chris-hayes-im-uncomfortable-calling-fallen-military-heroes
CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that'll be happening
tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who
was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible].
Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it's interesting because I think it is
very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking
valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel
so comfortable [sic] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable, ah,
uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so
rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want
to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and
obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine,
tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things
like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is
problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
Ferd Berfle
May 28, 2012, 7:13:41 AM5/28/12
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