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In reply to the discussion: Like it or Not, Bradley Manning is a Traitor [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)while at the same time having sympathy for her. I really see her as a hero in no way at all. But she is not the only one in life with many personal struggles. It also seems as though, at the time, she felt she was doing the country a service. And she did. She doesn't seem to have done in order to lavish in the limelight. In her head it was something necessary. While not heroic in my mind, it was brave. She went way out of her comfort zone to do something she felt was right at the time. She took an enormous risk that not many of us would be willing to take.
The conversations that she and others have elevated will make us all better. It will make our country better as long as we don't let the narrative die down. I don't think she is a hero. I do have respect for her. I have no ill will toward her. I have sympathy for the spot she has put herself in. She is brave.