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They are NOT heroes simply through the act of dying. Some were heroes through their acts whilst alive, and some of those acts of heroism will be unknown to everyone because they and all the witnesses died.
Some of them were undoubtedly villains too - it is simply not possible to put together a large group of people devoid of villains. That does not mean that they were more villainous by being in the military though.
All of them saints and sinners are worthy of our utmost respect for having volunteered to join a military knowing that they would be deployed to a war zone and knowing that they might die. Those who died certainly deserve dignity and decency, regardless of our personal view of the reasons behind the conflict.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
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The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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