Tango Mike Mike video Medal of Honor Roy P. Benavidez

Great way to start the day. I received this link in my email and very glad it was the first one I opened.

Tango Mike Mike is the story of Green Beret Roy P. Benavidez and his heroic action in Vietnam that earned him the Medal of Honor.
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While it takes an act of Congress to award the Medal of Honor to a serviceman or, in the case of Dr. Mary E. Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, there are other heroes walking around everyday.

They earned Silver and Bronze Stars for acts above and beyond what anyone else expected out of them. They did whatever they could to save the lives of others.

There are others, not standing out in the crowd, right next to their military brothers and sisters. Each one of them knows the risk of being in the military. They know they can get deployed into combat zones. They know they can be killed in the line of duty just as much as they know parts of their bodies may not come home with them. They know that their days in combat will never leave them even though they have left where it happened.

Would you do it? Would you risk your life for someone else? Would you take so many risks, set aside your personal desires and be willing to leave your families and friends?

Would you want to do it if you only had to do it part time? National Guardsmen and women are walking around looking like everyone else, doing normal jobs and you'd never know they were in the military. We had a supervisor of our cable company come out to the house because of problems no one else could solve. He saw the Bronze Star Award my husband has hanging on the wall and we started to talk about it. Then he told me that he was in the Army. He is in the National Guards.

We talked some more and then it struck me I wouldn't have ever known he was serving if he had not made some kind of connection with me. They don't just tell you about it.

How do you know if you are talking to a hero when you meet them? They all look just like everyone else. When I go to meetings and gatherings, I assume they are all veterans, since that is the purpose of the events, but when I am in the grocery store or even in church, it is nearly impossible to tell if someone served or not.

You can't tell by the haircuts anymore. You can't assume someone with long hair and dressed in leather riding a Harley is nothing more than "just another biker" instead of a veteran of Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan or Iraq. Short hair and shaved heads are in style so that doesn't help either.

The only way to know if you are face to face with a hero going above and beyond what you expect out of them is when you make a connection to them as a person first. You'll be amazed by how many heroes are in your life everyday.