Mara, Either Hero or Noteworthy is fine, but I wanted to be sure that you didn't wish to include every French who ever served in the military. Julia In a message dated 4/2/2007 8:23:06 PM Central Daylight Time, marafrench@mindspring.com writes: That's a puzzling question. Can you think of a better word? I meant a military person with a significant award or feat or service record. What about Noteworthy? it needs to be short and include both men and women, i.e., not Noteworthy Military Men, but Noteworthy Military Frenches might be good. Would you say Heroes definitely doesn't apply? I could well imagine getting 100+ noteworthy military Frenches which might consume too much of my time. Mara ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.