Do you still have heros? Do you still believe there are heroic people?

[NNadir]

I don't believe anyone is truly heroic anymore. I'm way to cynical, way to dried up and effete.

Does anyone else still have heros though. Be heroic and tell me about someone who is heroic.

[alarimer]

1. I think it's a mistake to put anyone on such a pedestal

Certainly there are those we can admire for whatever reason. "Hero" should be reserved for someone who rescues someone from a burning building or something like that.

[reyd reid reed]

2. Someone like the guy

who lay over the kid on the train tracks.

[alarimer]

3. Yes

It wasn't his job to do it; he just did it unthinkingly with no regard for his own safety. Me, I would dither and panic until it was too late. I do not have a cool head in an emergency.

[enigmatic]

4. Tommy Douglas

My avatar:

www.saskndp.com/history/douglas.html

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html

http://www.weyburnreview.com/tommydouglas/welcome.html

www.tommydouglas.ca/

[TOhioLiberal]

5. Keith Olbermann

is my hero. He has for a mighty long time been the lone voice in the wilderness, pointing out the lack of clothes on the Emperor. I think that he has had as much to do with the Democrats regaining control in the House and Senate as Howard Dean.

[hippywife]

6. Most of mine are dead

at the hands of the violence they sought to end, like Gandhi and MLK.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Occupational Hazard

:shrug:

[hippywife]

10. They did put themselves

on the line for what they believed, that there are causes worth dying for but none worth killing for.

[Xipe Totec]

13. That's the very definition of Hero

that is why so many are dead in body,


but live in our memory.

[jpgray]

8. It's easier once you figure out a hero doesn't need the cult of heroism to exist

I feel quite heroic when I keep my milk from expiring, for example.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I do believe that there are heroic people...

I have a couple of private ones, folks you don't know....

They hang on, work and live under terrible circumstances...

And they would deny being heroes.....

But they are!

:patriot:

[BarenakedLady]

11. flvegan

And I'm not saying that because he is hot (which he is) or because I have a secret crush on him (which, of course, we all do) but because of what he does for dogs in need. I can't even begin to imagine the things he has seen. And because he is humble about it as well. We need more warriors like him to speak up for those who can not speak up for themselves.

So that's why he is my hero. :)

[flvegan]

14. .

I've never been someone's hero. I don't think I live up to the term. Thank you, though. You've made my...year, I think.

This really made me feel good, thanks.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Most, you never hear about

Their names swallowed by the sands of time.

My neighbor across the street when I was young. He was involved in a fiery car accident in Mexico. He rescued his wife from the wreckage, went back to rescue one of his sons, then went back again to rescue his second son and died with his son when the car exploded.

Those who knew him remember him, decades hence.


His name was Manuel Ponce.

[flvegan]

15. Captain Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

You want hero? He has his flaws, but when it comes to SSCS, there are none.

http://www.seashepherd.org/