or to be one. The myths surrounding heroics nearly always have same things in common – whoever the person is or people are – there has to be a conflict. Whether born of the gods or chosen because of some special personality trait, a war or a battle against a terrible foe makes one a hero. Even when one dies as long as the foe dies.
The individual can be lucky, can be wise, can have magic, can even start out a pacifist but the key element is the battle. That’s why we say soldiers are heroes.
But actually this just shows they are courageous and immensely brave. The great heroes of WW1 were the ambulance men who picked up the wounded of all sides in the battlefield with no intent to kill anyone. Heroes are different from the vest of us, for sure, but they never kill.