Eh, well, while there's so many things home has over on Afghanistan, it ended up being not that bad and with pretty minimal risk (though we did lose some guys). Just another thing, another job to endure and get done with. As our 1st Sergeant rightly put, we've been paid pretty nicely to come out to Afghanistan and do what we do. No one owes us anything, but we do appreciate the recognition, so thanks. I'm no hero. Luckily I haven't had to be any situation that I could say determined whether I was or not. For the most part, being a soldier is just a job to me- one with a LOT of ups and downs. But other times, like after movies or whatever, it's put into a perspective that even I feel that we did something important and did things to keep the country safe, so honestly, I find it hard to accept all this respect just because I'm an infantry soldier. I just wanted to put that out there.