S.B. Symphony Thanks Firefighters with Concert

Enough with the concerts and medals.

The firefighters were JUST DOING THEIR JOB.

They are not heroes.....they are workers doing a job that they get paid for.

If you don't pay them.....they won't put out the fires.

When the garbage man picks up your garbage....do you have a concert for him......when the phone man comes and repairs your phone....do you give him a medal?

When you do your job....you just deserve to keep it....it doesn't make you some species of hero!

And don't even get me started about the United Way....if you are lucky 10 cents on the dollar will go to an actual charity...the rest goes to the executives of United Way and their lucrative salaries.

If you really want to do something....donate DIRECTLY to a family that lost their home.

Don't give to United Way.

Does your job insist that you arrive immediately at any and all hours to save lives? That's what makes them heros.
People who are angry and cynical are not.

Hero is the most over used word in the english language.

It used to be special.....by using it so often it has lost all of its impact.

Every soldier is a hero? Every fireman is a hero......I think not.

The dude who jumped on the tracks in the ny subway to save a person.....now, that is a hero.

johnny joins the army and he is a hero>>>>>>NO!

YO SB Paddy

Does your job insist that you arrive immediately at any and all hours to save lives? That's what makes them heros.

THAT IS THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION.....THEY HAVE 24 HOUR SHIFTS.....NO HEROES THERE!

What about the people who had 3 days off - but returned to work to put out the fire and save lives?
And not the army?
Or the police?
Just in case your life is threatened; in any way, these people made a committment to save you in any and all ways possible. You sound like the type that makes people wonder why that person was saved.

How anyone can compare a garbage man to a firefighter or law enforcement officer is an example of someone who either has some deep seated psychological issues with folks who have authority or is an idiot.

Definition of Hero: Hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters (fictional or historical) that, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice – that is, heroism – for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

Definition of Idiot: "Idiot" was originally created to refer to "layman, person lacking professional skill", "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning". Declining to take part in public life, such as democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters.

Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment–individuals who are "stupid".

In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, and its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.

Please draw your own conclusions here...