Whom would you nominate as your personal greatest hero! Family excluded!

[Gary O']

Whom would you nominate as your personal greatest hero! Fmily excluded!​

Easy one
It's my Lord and Savior Jesus The Christ

As far as mortals
It's all the unsung dads and moms that slogged to work day and night for decades to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of their little ones

 

[Geezer Garage]

Even Moi. Tell me it isn't so. One of my current hero's is Katie Porter. I love the way she holds corporate crooks feet to the fire.

Quote: Everyone has faults.

 

[Alligatorob]

It's all the unsung dads and moms that slogged to work day and night for decades to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of their little ones

Yep!

 

[Old Salt]

I do that all the time. I don’t have an allegiance to a party.

In Canada switching sides is also made fairly easy for undecided voters since three of our parties are slightly left of center and one slightly to the right! So if people get tired of a government they have no qualms about switching! No great venom right against left and vice versa! Thank God!

 

[Mitch86]

My favorite is Franklin Roosevelt. He got America out of the Great Depression and led the Allies to victory in WW 2.

 

[seadoug]

I would nominate Harvey Milk because he did so much to further LBTQ rights.

"Milk served almost eleven months in office, during which he sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The Supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and it was signed into law by Mayor George Moscone. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor who cast the sole vote against Milk's bill.

Despite his short career in politics, Milk became an icon in San Francisco and a martyr in the gay community.[note 1] In 2002, Milk was called "the most famous and most significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the United States".[2] Anne Kronenberg, his final campaign manager, wrote of him: "What set Harvey apart from you or me was that he was a visionary. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real, for all of us."[3] Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009."

 

[SeniorBen]

My favorite is Franklin Roosevelt. He got America out of the Great Depression and led the Allies to victory in WW 2.

And he was crippled at the time, which makes it even more extraordinary!

 

[SeniorBen]

It seems like the last true hero we've had in the U.S. was Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who landed an airliner in the Hudson River after a bunch of Canadian geese knocked out both engines. I'm going to have to read his autobiography.

 

[Mike]

What about JFK.

He faced the Russians down, over Cuba.

Mike.

 

[Gaer]

I mentioned a few earlier but if I had to choose one, it would have to be Goethe.
"To be doing the right thing, whether what is right eventually comes to pass
being of no concern, to abhor ignorance in action, to regard perfection as the norm of Heaven."
He had courage of extremes. His words held style, tempo and wisdoms.

 

[Tommy]

Whom would you nominate as your personal greatest hero! Fmily excluded!​

Easy one
It's my Lord and Savior Jesus The Christ

As far as mortals
It's all the unsung dads and moms that slogged to work day and night for decades to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of their little ones

My answer as well. It could be no other.

 

[SeniorBen]

Daniel Ellsberg is also a hero of mine. He risked a long prison sentence but by leaking the Pentagon Papers, he did what was right for the people of the U.S. rather than allowing the lies to continue flowing out of the government unabated.

The papers were leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post in 1971. They revealed that the U.S. government had been systematically misleading the public about the war including the reasons for U.S. involvement, the progress of the war, and the likelihood of victory. The result was a major public outcry against the war and it hastened our withdrawal from Vietnam.

 

[Old Salt]

I mentioned a few earlier but if I had to choose one, it would have to be Goethe.
"To be doing the right thing, whether what is right eventually comes to pass
being of no concern, to abhor ignorance in action, to regard perfection as the norm of Heaven."
He had courage of extremes. His words held style, tempo and wisdoms.

I loved him and the poets of his time because their poems made sense and didn't keep you wondering "what's that all about!" We read Faust in school! It was mostly poetry! I especially liked Schiller's "Die Glocke!" Nowadays it seems that the more obscure a poem is the more it is praised, while I scratch my head in dumb befuddlement! My younger daughter get's them though! She's the smarter one!