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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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Your Hero
Who do you consider to be your hero or heroine, and why? Tell us something about them
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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Fair Dinkum
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 2,319
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Mine, first and foremost, are my parents (and other relatives, as well as my sister) for everything they've been through, and for everything they still manage to provide me with.
I also admire people like Nelson Mandela and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for non-violently standing up for what they believe in, for years and years. That's remarkable. I also believe that a lot of everyday people are heroes too- firefighters, ambulance officers... |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Narnia
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Lutheran pastor in Germany during WWII, executed at a concentration camp a few weeks before the wars end after it was found out he took part in a failed plot to assasinate Hitler. He had the chance to leave and come to the U.S. earlier in the war but stayed to continue his pastoring (and training others, and saving Jews, etc.).
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Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001
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BoP, for laying the smackdown on everyone in sight.
![]() Okay okay, maybe not ![]() There's a deacon at the church I go to, and he's REALLY nice. I'd like to be like him when I'm an adult. I suppose you could say he's my 'hero'. At any rate he's the closest thing I have to one ![]() |
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The Blobbit
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...)
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![]() I couldn't possibly say who my hero is, simply because I feel there are too many traits to admire and too many good people. I really loved the character Pimpernel Smith in that English propaganda film though, but I fear that demeas the thread...
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
Posts: 10,647
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I worship myself... *smacks Tessar for good measure*
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The Blobbit
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001
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