Who is your hero? (non-capping)

[bear]

I personally don't give a crap about celebrities, sport, movie, entertainment or biz......and I'd be happy to tell any and most that they have done NOTHING very impressive.....hit a ball over a wall...big deal.....Put a ball through a hoop better than anyone, sell CDs...dont think so.. MY HEROES......Several worthy types come to my mind.... 1. The doctor that cured my wife of a BAD bladder cancer.......better yet ALL GOOD DOCTORS who give back life on a daily basis.PERIOD!(ya musta been there to appreciate) To all the good cops and firemen who lay it all on the line for little pay or respect. AMEN! To guys like Tom Monahan...Last I heard this orphan who made the BIG$ with Dominos Pizza ,owner of the Det. Tigers was selling all and systematically giving it all away.to charities, orphans and needy. Whatya think? Do we idolize the wrong people????Who is your hero?
bear

 

[KotysDad]

My heros are definitely my parents. They were always there when I needed them to be, and sometimes there when I wished they were elsewhere

lol

If I can be half the parents that they were, my son will be happy.

thanks mom and dad...love ya both

 

[hello there]

My hero is myself.

 

[Nick Douglas]

Present day, I look up to Jim Brown, Frank DeFord and Don King. I am talking about in professional life, of course.

 

[ctownguy]

bear
Those are excellent choices and I agree wholehardely with you on the idea of this topic.

KD
Parents are always a good place to look for heroes and they should be.

True heroes to me are every single man, woman or child that gave their lives defending our freedoms and liberties in all the wars to defeat those who would take those freedoms from us. And those who served and were lucky enough to come back to their families.

We should honor our veterans much more than 1 or 2 days a year. They certainly deserve better.

 

[barkeep]

hugh hefner, for obvious reasons, with larry flynt coming in a close second.

 

[visionary]

THE POPE

 

[bear]

CTG,
Amen to that! Don't we over 50s all know someone who either never came back or came back different than when he/she went! Same after Korea and same after WW2.
Lotta bums (thats what they were called) in my town when I grew up....Took me a long time to realize that most of those guys were the ww2 PTS victims. Yeah, keep your rockstar, movie idols. Most real heroes go unnoticed and unappreciated. IMHO
bear

 

[Duncan]

Nick;

Why Jim Brown??

 

[loophole3]

nick, i'm assuming you're pulling our chain, right? i mean. we've never met but from your writings i consider you to be knowledgeable, articulate and generally a good guy. don king i consider to be a serious waste of breathable air. i'm stricken by the contrast.

 

[Ronbets]

Bear et al,

This one's easy. TED TURNER. Last year he donated over 3/4BILLION $ to charity. He chided and embarrassed nerd cheakskate Bill Gates into giving more than a paltry 100 dimes to worthy causes. Gates and wife saw the light and established a foundation.

The main factor that made TURNER an icon was his continual cheating on his wife "Hanoi Jane". This dirty BITCH sold out an entire generation of veterans during the NAM war. Her famous trek to the "Hanoi Hilton" POW camp to scold our POWs still lingers 30 years later.

 

[Neemer]

Jim Brown??????
Dong King??????

C'mon, just kiddin' around, huh?? Brown has taken an active role in community wide projects but he's also been known to get a little crazy with snow shovels, especially concerning his wife's car.

And King, well we all know about his less than stellar rap sheet...

 

[Duncan]

Didn't Don King actually do time for murder??

 

[MadJack]

Willis Haviland Carrier

 

[Duncan]

"Only in America"

 

[bmc]

My biggest hero is probably my paternal grandmother.
She lost her husband while pregnant with their only child and never remarried.
Worked until retirement for minimum wage as a practical nurse.
Made a nice life for herself and dad.
Always had a nice house, car, furniture, etc.
Had some investments.
Never wanted for anything that I know of.
Even had money to loan if someone needed it.
How's that for money management?

 

[Duncan]

bmc:

Thanks for bringing some reality to all this - great post.

In terms of "famous" people being heroes, what about John McCain?? He was a POW in Vietnam and refused to accept release without his comrades also being released.

We can never know how we would act without actually being in that position, but McCain was, and he rose to the challenge.

INHO, that is heroism (doesn't necessarily mean he would make a great president though!!).


Still, bmc's grandmother is still my fav. I'd vote for HER for president!!

 

[Ronbets]

Originally posted by Duncan:
bmc:

In terms of "famous" people being heroes, what about John McCain?? He was a POW in Vietnam and refused to accept release without his comrades also being released.

We can never know how we would act without actually being in that position, but McCain was, and he rose to the challenge.

Agree McCain acted with tremendous valor when held captive by the NV gooks. His stock plummetted with me when he was touring Vegas promoting his NCAA betting ban, he decided to spend a good part of an afternoon shooting crap at Caesars. He was no novice.

 

[Duncan]

That's interesting, but hardly surprising.

After all McCain is a politician, therefore he is a hypocrite.

It is surprising though that he would be in a casino while promoting the NCAA betting ban. Would have thought Caesars would not be impressed.

By the way, what did happen to the proposed ban?? Haven't heard anything about it in a while.

Wonder if any of those people ever learned that prohibition had to be repealed.....

 

[Ronbets]

The NCAA betting ban is pretty much defeated.