Your soldiers are not sacrificing to make your country free or to keep it free. Neither are our soldiers (the Canadians). Neither are the UK soldiers. None of them are sacrificing to make their countries free. Freedom has nothing to do with their very considerable sacrifices. They are sacrificing so that big oil companies and other big financial players in the West can make big money off invaded and occupied lands that don't belong to us.

Are our soldiers heroes? Yeah, sometimes they are. And sometimes the people fighting against them are too. A hero is simply someone who shows great courage in a desperate situation, and there are many such on both sides in every war.

Do your soldiers deserve respect for their courage? Sure. If you want to believe they're protecting your "freedom", though, that's just feelgood mythology with no basis in reality. The people opposing our soldiers on the battlefield are not interested in taking away YOUR freedom or mine. They have no such objectives. They're interested in getting foreign powers, foreign armies, and foreign political/commercial/financial control the hell out of their own homelands! It's their freedom and sovereignty that they are fighting for. Their culture. Their beliefs. Their way of life. And their right to run their own affairs as they wish. You'd probably do the same if you were in their place. It's neocolonialism and foreign occupation that they are fighting against.

Wait until you've been invaded and taken over by some greater foreign power with a huge military capability comparable to ours, and then you'll see. You won't fight to take away their freedom, whatever it may be! You'll fight to make them LEAVE your country and leave you alone to live your own way of life and control your own land.

We are the aggressors here. Us. The western powers. We're armed to the teeth. We terrorize many other lands. We invade other places. We hold a nuclear Sword of Damocles over the whole world. And it's all being done for money and imperial interests, not to protect anyone's freedom.

Matter of fact, our own traditional constitutional freedoms are being steadily eroded and taken away year by year, and not by the invaded foreigners we call "enemies"...but our own legally elected governments.