Originally Posted by groovygirl

People like you that twist things are just out to make trouble. I see hero's mentioned on Nancy Grace every night and I am very sad for them. I am NOT going to hear about every "hero" that dies ,because many of them are just every day people. I guess it depends on what you thinks qualifies one as a hero.

I think my 5th grade teacher was a hero(for many reasons) but I am SURE that none of you ever heard of his death.

Again, my point was not to take away from any hero's. This thread was not about them, it was about Michael Jackson. No one called him a hero here that I recall, but we have the right to feel pain over his death and he has the right to not be attacked after he is gone. I still do not understand the pure anger over him getting attention. There is no way around that he was well known and that always happens. It is not his fault that the hero's in the world are not known by every one.[/QUOTE

I don't want to speak for anyone else, but for me I have to say the disppointment (not anger) toward MJs death comes more from the way the media attacked MJ years ago, and now they are trying to make him into a hero. I feel that he led a very strange life, was a drug addict and in my eyes, there are way too many unanswered questions in regards to his past. None of us really know, either way....what did or did not happen regarding the charges against him. While you are correct that there is no way to know about every *hero*, the fact that the media has wasted so much time and attention day after day on MJs death does bother many. It would be nice for the families of our military to see just a few minutes spent on these young adults who risked their lives......for us!