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by Havoc 1844 days ago
>there's nothing heroic about it

The whole medal thing is laying it on a bit thick and sure the rat doesn't know wtf is going on, but I do think the word is warranted.

This rat found 71 land mines. That's 71 mines that are not stepped on by some kid playing soccer in a field.

Yes there are issues with forcing animals do thing, but that seems pretty worthy of grandiose terms.