The answer is YES..... Not only the fallen soldiers, but all soldiers who risks their lives every day, to keep all of us safe back here at home.... And its pretty amazing that anyone could feel otherwise... Spiderman, Superman, and your favorite childhood heroes aren't real people.... If you want to meet a real hero... walk up... shake hands with a soldier... and tell them thank you, and keep them in your prayers.. 
Webster's attitude was, as he wrote his parents, "I am living on borrowed time. I do not think I shall live through the next jump. If I don't come back, try not to take it too hard. I wish I could persuade you to regard death as casually as we do over here. In the heat of battle you expect casualties, you expect somebody to be killed and you are not surprised when a friend is machinegunned in the face. You have to keep going. It's not like civilian life, where sudden death is so unexpected."
When his mother wrote to express her considerable alarm at this attitude (and her worries about his younger brother, who had just joined the paratroopers), Webster was blunt in his reply: "Would you prefer for somebody else's son to die in the mud? You want us to win the war, but you apparently don't want to have your sons involved in the actual bloodshed. That's a strangely contradictory attitude.
"Somebody has to get in and kill the enemy. Somebody has to be in the infantry and the paratroops. If the country all had your attitude, nobody would fight, everybody would be in the Quartermaster. And what kind of a country would that be?"
If Chris Hayes is uncomfortable calling fallen military "Heros"...who does he fell comfortable calling "Heros" ?
From an article he wrote on his website...
"In the past several weeks I, like countless other New Yorkers and Americans, have found solace in the epic acts of heroism displayed by the firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers who have risked their lives to save others. My aunt's neighbors displayed a quieter, more quotidian heroism in her final weeks, setting up a cooking schedule so that a fresh dinner would always be delivered, taking turns watching the kids, and even lending my uncle a new coffee pot when his broke."
Hayes "Heros"..........Baby setters and neighbors who lend his uncle a coffee pot.............
If Chris Hayes is uncomfortable calling fallen military "Heros"...who does he fell comfortable calling "Heros" ?
From an article he wrote on his website...
"In the past several weeks I, like countless other New Yorkers and Americans, have found solace in the epic acts of heroism displayed by the firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers who have risked their lives to save others. My aunt's neighbors displayed a quieter, more quotidian heroism in her final weeks, setting up a cooking schedule so that a fresh dinner would always be delivered, taking turns watching the kids, and even lending my uncle a new coffee pot when his broke."
Hayes "Heros"..........Baby setters and neighbors who lend his uncle a coffee pot.............
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