I must be honest and say that, while I feel very sad to see the coffins arrive from Afghanistan with those poor young lads killed in their prime, I'm only too aware that they were trained to kill, and that there are just as many dead Afghans (civilians mostly, and among them women and children) put into the ground over there. If you go to War with a rifle in your hands, prepared to use it, then Death may and can come to you too. I only view as 'heroic' acts of courage under fire to save ones comrades, or things like bomb-disposal. My father would thump me if he could read this, he abhorred any kind of pacifism, as he fought in WW2, but we were all personally and nationally threatened back then. I'm not so sure about why exactly our troops are in Afghanistan. Terrorism isn't something that armed soldiers can address, it needs Intelligence and negociation. I bet I'll get some stick for this posting, but that's my view!