Adrian Cronauer

[vided]

https://www.stripes.com/news/good-mo...at-79-1.538398

[Chupaca]

's to family and friends and know many a young soldier of the era will remember him well...

[cptjam]

The real deal. Godspeed, Airman!

[Bob Denman]

R.I.P. to an American Hero!

[ByeSpyder]

R.I.P. to an American Hero!

"Hero's" were the soldiers in the field who covered their wounded buddies. Or the helo pilots who entered fire zones to pick up the wounded or trapped. Or the corpsmen who, unarmed and under fire, attended to soldiers wounded in battle. Or just the ordinary 19 or 20 year old soldier who was sent to that hell hole by politicians who didn't have a clue and ended up fighting for his life.

Not a radio DJ who "fought" from the relative safety of Saigon.

I'm not taking anything away from Cronhauer but let's please remember the proper definition of "hero".

[ARtraveler]

The article was a good read. Thanks Vided.

[UtahPete]

"I always was a bit of an iconoclast, as Robin (Williams) was in the film," Cronauer told the AP in 1999. "But I was not anti-military, or anti-establishment. I was anti-stupidity. And you certainly do run into a lot of stupidity in the military."