Hero

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1972. The story can also be found in the anthologies Best SF: 1972, edtidt by Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 (1973), edited by Terry Carr, Analog 9 (1973), edited by Ben Bova, and The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century (2001), edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Harry Turtledove. It is included in the collection The Best of Joe Haldeman. The story was incororated in the novel The Forever War (1975).