the "hero!!!!!!" messaging is... kind of gross? i mean if you are a jackass to grocery workers & delivery ppl & cleaners i will personally hunt u down w/ a sword, but america v purposely uses this kind of rhetoric for The Troops and then... systematically fucks them over
i mean the "superhero" image stuff is. fine. appreciation is good. but pay, protection, sick leave, institutional support? far better. i keep thinking about this doctor at elmhurst... buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph… 
but also appreciation is good!!!!!! but also america loves to cast people as Heroes in a War and then churn them like chum and leave them to die. true of soldiers and true of everyone we are now metaphorizing into Soldiers in a War
