I have a confession to make: when someone leaves a really flattering comment on one of my videos – I squirm. Nothing makes me feel more uncomfortable than being called a “hero”. And I guess there isn’t a better time to talk about this than on a day when we honor the real heroes of the world.
For most of Canada and the USA, Remembrance Day (or Veterans Day) just ended. Let me spare you the gushy speech and cut to the point. The men and women we honor on this day have a hell of a lot more guts than most of us – and I definitely include myself in the “not enough guts” category.
I’ll admit: if I was put on the beaches of Normandy, in some trench in the middle of World War I, or even on deployment (like some of my friends have been and some still are) in Afghanistan or Iraq – I’d probably soil myself and cry until I got home.
For me, the reason I started this project is because I wanted to show that you don’t have to be a hero to make a difference in the world. The term hero gets thrown about way too easily and I think today, out of any other day in the year, we should recognize who the real heroes are.
Lest we forget.
