{"id":2116,"date":"2023-05-27T02:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T02:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2024-01-25T00:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:12:06","slug":"heroism-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/heroism-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroism Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Heroism Is Dead\nKatie Thornton, '26\n\nMen on earth <strong>thrive <\/strong>on it\nPeople describe others with it\nPerform acts of goodness or even acts of evil around it\nBut no one really knows the <strong>true <\/strong>meaning of it\nThere are textbook definitions about it\nBut no one really knows\nSoldiers die to gain this simple word\nPeople give their hope for this word, their <strong>love<\/strong>, <strong>desires<\/strong>,<strong> bliss<\/strong> ,<strong>dreams<\/strong>, <strong>laughter<\/strong>, <strong>happiness<\/strong>\nWhen will we stop sacrificing our souls and our minds for words that mean nothing\nFor once it\u2019s gone what will we have to use and what will people who gave their lovers, sons, and daughters gain \nfrom this\nwe lead them our sympathy to use as armor\nbecause you say they know what they got themselves into when they signed up for this meaningless word\n<strong>legend<\/strong> , protector, bravery can describe it,\n<strong>Heroism<\/strong> stems from the word <strong>Hero<\/strong>\n<strong>Heroism<\/strong> isn\u2019t just one word\nIt\u2019s many words with many meanings for different people\nBut by itself it can be <strong>defined<\/strong> in many ways but it can also come with a lot of weight\n<strong>Good <\/strong>and <strong>Bad<\/strong>\n<strong>Positive<\/strong> and <strong>Negative<\/strong>\nTerrorists descibe themselves as <strong>Heroines<\/strong>\n<strong>Bombing<\/strong> school houses, buildings, roads, homes\nBut for us heroism is what we use to describe us fighting for injustice\nRight ?\nAnd us bombing other people for the greather good of our country isn\u2019t consider terrorism\nBut when it comes down to it when we actually go through it because we blindly believe that did something wrong when they probably didn\u2019t ,it\u2019s justifiable and right but when another country tries to do it it\u2019s act of treason\nwhen someone\nCommits arson, murder, or death by gun fire\nsome may say that\u2019s deem as heroism\nAnd the sad part is that they do it just to get the glory but\nThe <strong>human<\/strong> race\nBeing as stubborn as it is thinks this is the best way to get what we want\nAnd\nwe\ndon\u2019t\nCare\nWho gets harmed in the processes\nWe walk around everyday wearing pride on backs\nBecause we think we\u2019re superior then one another\n<strong>Russia<\/strong> thinks it\u2019s better than <strong>ukraine<\/strong>\n<strong>China<\/strong> thinks it better the <strong>america<\/strong>\nAnd <strong>America <\/strong>thinks it's <strong>God<\/strong>\nThe government is classified as savers armed soldiers ready for battle\nBut it always makes decisions with blinders on\nHonestly I don\u2019t think the government has made one choice that had nothing to do with but gaining nothing but\nmore power\nWe think that our government isn\u2019t as bad as the governments in russia of china or india\nBut we are I mean we\u2019re just way better at hiding it\nOur government rules off of fear and intimidation\nIt\u2019s not as bad as the others but it\u2019s not better\nAnd others governments are just cold blood killers\nWhat makes it worse is that they say that they care about our opinions but the first chance they get, they just\ndisregard us like we\u2019re nothing\nSo <strong>I guess in this moment<\/strong> I have to say is <strong>thanks for serving our country<\/strong>\nI mean that\u2019s what we should say right\nI mean you have always had our best interest at heart\nLike a mother protecting their children\nOh wait you don\u2019t actually take care of us like our children because you can\u2019t even take care of our children because\neveryday their getting\nSluder everyday but your worried about the children who don\u2019t even exist yet\nSo I guess we should bow down to the almighty american government\nBut you will never deserve our <strong>respect<\/strong> as citizens of this country you lose that a long time ago\nEven though we say all of this in the backness of our minds we used the excuse the government is corrupt but when\nyou actually think hard enough it\u2019s our fault because we screwed it up to began with\nI mean we go to war every day if it\u2019s not real war or it\u2019s a political one a political one\nIt\u2019s a never ending cycle from <strong>triumph <\/strong>to <strong>vengeance<\/strong> to\n<strong>Apocalyptic unholy chaos<\/strong> to the innocent <strong>virtue <\/strong>of an unborn child\nIf the government has enough time to take power away from on another they should have enough time to care\nabout the people they call themselves protecting from the big bad outside world\nThey Shoot one another because their leader just wants to see bloodshed and killing little kids in the cross hairs\nbecause they forget that their americans to even if their from another country they\u2019re still as american as us\nBut still they force<strong> 8-16 year<\/strong> olds kids to join their war but it\u2019s not even theirs to <strong>fight<\/strong>\nPeople of the world say that terrorist are the bad ones\nWell take a look around\nWe\u2019re the ones who created the unseemly beast but we have too much pride to admit it\nA Couple of them were believers of the government once\nI but they were once those little kids you see in commercials dancing in the rain not care about a thing like they\nwere floating on air\nBut as they grew their light started to dim because they saw their government fail there people time and time again\nSo unfortunately they took matters into own hands\nThey claim it as just using what the gods of the universe gave them\nI\u2019m not saying the way their try ing to get their voices and point across is right\nI\u2019m saying that maybe for once we just listen to what ever dumb founded idea they have and take it in to\nconsideration even if it\u2019s dumb\nJust for once in our messed up lives can we act what we were made to be\n<strong>Human<\/strong>\nThink about that innocent child we damned by labeling them as a terrorist\nBecause for they once had names and some what normal lives\nUntil it went crashing down under all the weight that they shouldn\u2019t be carrying because the government should be\ndoing better\nCaring more than anyone person standing in a crowd\nAnd they should be getting suffocated by you or anyone else they should be the ones worry about the people where\nsupposed t be protecting\nThat isn\u2019t fair to them and it isn\u2019t fair to us\nAnd they shouldn\u2019t be defined as such a word that will follow them for the rest of their lives\nAnd honestly we should be the ones to judge\nConsidering all we have done in the past\nDo we not remember the phrase we the people I mean we created it in our most hopeful of times\nIt\u2019s like all of our memories of the past and how we overcame them have been forgotten just how we forgot that\nwe\u2019ew suppose to be fighting together and against\nAll it takes is one action\nOne crack\nOne pivoting point of a person, a place or phrase or thing to change it all\nAll the pain, loneliness, suffering\nThere has to be a stopping point right?\nI mean I guess we should leave it too the professional\nThe heroines of our stories\nThe ones that has more heroism than anyone\nAh it all comes back to the word heroism again\nAfter all of this do still think heroism is good word to describe someone\nMy opinion this word is empty\nIt means nothing and it always will\nNothing it\u2019s a thing made up with letter from the alphabet\nA word that men feel greatly about themselves to live up expectations put on them by the world\nAnd if they fail to live up to it there a failure as a men\nAll this word cause is\nSelf-deprecation, pride, comparison, unbelievable standards\nThis word is despicable\nThis is how I view and think this word when it rears it\u2019s ugly head\nListen this is just a generalization of what this word is\nDon\u2019t go around say this word to someone without considering the repercussions\nOf saying it\nBut hey you don\u2019t have to listen to me I\u2019m just a fourteen year old after all<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Thornton, 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