Your Hero

sun-star · 07-28-2004, 09:46 AM

Who do you consider to be your hero or heroine, and why? Tell us something about them

Real people, not superheroes

(unless you really respect and admire superheroes...)

Linaewen · 07-28-2004, 09:57 AM

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...

Mercutio · 07-28-2004, 04:16 PM

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.).

***Tessar*** · 07-28-2004, 04:56 PM

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

.

Janny · 07-28-2004, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer! My, I wrote about him in my RS exam.

Tremendous.

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...

BeardofPants · 07-28-2004, 06:07 PM

I worship myself... *smacks Tessar for good measure*

heros? You mean other than Prof X? Hmmmm.... Anyone who can compete in a decathlon gets my vote.

Janny, I cleared my cache, and now I have the new smilies.

Janny · 07-28-2004, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

Janny, I cleared my cache, and now I have the new smilies.

Say that last bit in English and I'll reply.

I just want my old happy back...

***Tessar*** · 07-28-2004, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

*smacks Tessar for good measure*

*gasp* I'll never worship you again! *sob*

07-28-2004, 09:46 AM	#1
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Your Hero Who do you consider to be your hero or heroine, and why? Tell us something about them Real people, not superheroes (unless you really respect and admire superheroes...) __________________ 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.

07-28-2004, 04:16 PM	#3
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	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.). __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

07-28-2004, 06:07 PM	#6
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I worship myself... smacks Tessar for good measure heros? You mean other than Prof X? Hmmmm.... Anyone who can compete in a decathlon gets my vote. Janny, I cleared my cache, and now I have the new smilies. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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07-28-2004, 09:57 AM	#2
Linaewen Fair Dinkum Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,319	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...

07-28-2004, 04:56 PM	#4
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	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 .