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“Leaders can be heroes and heroes can be leaders. Leaders motivate and inspire commitment from their followers and others to get things done and accomplish the mission. Heroes are individuals that have performed heroic acts above and beyond the call of duty, with personal risk to help others. True leaders always put others first and true heroes do something courageous for others without being asked. Heroes and heroic leaders that perform selfless acts of courage and focus on the needs of others do it without the expectation of anything in return! It wasn’t their goal in life to become heroes!” — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs