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Title: Who are/where your Heroes?
Post by: GtoRA2 on September 11, 2003, 11:58:41 AM: Like when you where growing up? Or now?

Richard Bong has always been one of mine and Joe Foss.

Pappy Boyington was one as well, tell my dad pointed out, even though he was a hero, he was also a drunk and there where better men to admire.

I never thought of sports figures or movies stars as heroes.
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Post by: Ripsnort on September 11, 2003, 11:59:57 AM: My father. Still alive in Minnesota. Best dad one could ask for, inspiration to this day.
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Post by: DiabloTX on September 11, 2003, 12:02:59 PM: Too many to list, too many have let me down.

Like Rip though, dad was always there. And still is.
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Post by: Monk on September 11, 2003, 12:03:26 PM: Yup, like Rip said, my DAD.
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Post by: Dega on September 11, 2003, 12:23:14 PM: Heroes? Yes, and role models.

My Father (http://members.cox.net/on-your-6/dega.html)
My Grandfather

Orville & Wilbur Wright
Chuck Yeager
Alan Shepard
John Glen
Neil Armstrong
Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock
Richard Bach
Most Policemen
Damn near any Fireman
Any number of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines who have given their energy, and sometimes lives, over the course of the years to defend this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
-Author Unknown
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Post by: snafu on September 11, 2003, 12:24:20 PM: Yup, What Rip said, Back in the 70's when someone said you're just like you're father I would have punched his lights out. But now I realise just what a compliment it was. I owe him so much including my interest in aviation and motorcycles. (I could strip a Norton ES2 down at the age of 9.... Oh, and have a good go at putting it back together). He has never let me down and at the ripe old age of 79 is unfortunately coming to terms with a serious (Terminal) illness which has all but made him housebound :( But the sparkle is still in his eyes and he's still the belligerant (sp)? SOB he's always been. I'm doing my best to repay all he has done for me over the last 47 years but I've still got a long way to go. (Hell Mom ain't a bad old gal either).

TTFN
snafu
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Post by: Raubvogel on September 11, 2003, 12:27:55 PM: Animal is my heroine.
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Post by: Saurdaukar on September 11, 2003, 12:35:25 PM: My father
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Teddy Roosevelt
Anyone who wears the Stars and Stripes on their shoulder, be they dressed in red, blue, or desert pattern uniforms.
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Post by: rc51 on September 11, 2003, 12:48:06 PM: George S Patton
Martin Luther King
Jesus Christ
Carlos Hathcock marine corps sniper viet nam 93 confirmed kills
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Post by: Furious on September 11, 2003, 01:42:03 PM: grover.
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Post by: Curval on September 11, 2003, 01:45:30 PM: wow Dega...he sounds like an amazing man.

For me:

My dad
My grandfather
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Post by: Nilsen on September 11, 2003, 01:48:31 PM: Jenna Jameson
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Post by: Dega on September 11, 2003, 02:12:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Curval
wow Dega...he sounds like an amazing man.

Thank you sir! I always thought so. A great dad and was probably my best friend as well.

Here's a little more on my hero, My Dad (http://members.cox.net/grh9/russ/dad/dad.html)
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Post by: CyranoAH on September 11, 2003, 02:40:55 PM: Not heros, but influences... to list a few:

Dad and granddad
Carl Sagan
Jacques Cousteau
Astronauts and Cosmonauts
...

Daniel
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Post by: Dune on September 11, 2003, 02:47:58 PM: My dad
Both my grandfather's (here's one of them: http://www.web-birds.com/8th/364/dww38.jpg )
King David
Elmer Keith
Roger Staubach
Pater Hathaway Captstick
a few others
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Post by: Roscoroo on September 11, 2003, 03:14:40 PM: My hero here (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/js.htm)

All the rest are influences, teachers,respected elders , ect
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Post by: Dega on September 11, 2003, 03:15:53 PM: Very cool picture Dune!
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Post by: Trikky on September 11, 2003, 08:28:46 PM: Jimi Hendrix or Winston Churchill, depends on my er...mood.
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Post by: Maverick on September 11, 2003, 08:51:12 PM: Dega and Sardaukar pretty much covered it for me. Quite simply my idea of a hero is one who is willing to place themselves in harms way for the sake of others.

~~to those who have done so, are doing so and those who will make that choice in the future.~~
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Post by: Creamo on September 12, 2003, 03:58:13 PM: Are you kidding? For when i was a kid, this is a wash. Did anyone grow up in the 70's?

Your Dad? Please.

It was Evel Knievel.

When I got the Stunt Bike for Christmas I nearly shat meself. My parents were king that day, and I have never forgotten how glad i was that they hooked me up, and I surely knew it, but damn, i sure didn't think they were Evel.

Droopy, your kids will loath you when they are older, they have to go to friends houses to play games. They will hate you. And be able to dictate it to you in perfect English, ahead of their socially normal class, lol.
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Post by: MrCoffee on September 12, 2003, 04:53:56 PM: Hitech and Pyro are my heros cas they allowed me to fulfill my dreams of shooting people out of the sky, lol. Aside from that Hugh Heffner cas the man is a fr*king stud.

:D