I'm not really talking about people in your life who have inspired you,but people who have risked or sacrificed their lives or part of their lives for another or for humanity in general, somebody on the order of Martin Luther King or Roosevelt (mentioned). Real people, not comic book characters. Martin Luther King said he expected to be killed, and then he was.
I'm not really talking about people in your life who have inspired you,but people who have risked or sacrificed their lives or part of their lives for another or for humanity in general
Being a hero doesn't mean you had to risk or sacrifice your physical life. I reject that premise. It's eliminating too many good people that have helped humanity in great ways.
I think Dean Kamen is a hero.
Not only has he selflessly worked to improve so many lives, he's been a spring board for so many others to do the same.
That's the first that comes to mind.
In general though, when I think of people needing to make someone else a hero, I think of this.....
He was SO different. He was OUT THERE, throwing himself at what he believed in. He was so bravely himself.
That.
is more than most of us ever dared to do.
When I looked back on his life after his death, I realized that what happened to make him famous was a dangerous, gutsy gamble that, for him, paid off.
I have a thing for people who walk to the beat of a different drummer.
farmerman: Frances Vojtyla, Bogdan Lis. Who are these people? Could you enlighten me? That's what I started this thread, to bring hidden heroes to light.
vojtyla became a pope. his life as a bishop was kinda stirring. Bogdan Lis, ws a front man in helping bring down the Russian "occupation" of Poland. He was a back scenes guy for Solidarity at the shipyards. He had the Gdansk crews. There woulda been no Solidarity without him.
vojtyla became a pope. his life as a bishop was kinda stirring. Bogdan Lis, ws a front man in helping bring down the Russian "occupation" of Poland. He was a back scenes guy for Solidarity at the shipyards. He had the Gdansk crews. There woulda been no Solidarity without him.
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