Who's your hero?

[gaz]

Military or otherwise, alive or dead?

I'd have to go with Ernest Shackleton of the Imperial Trans-Arctic Expedition. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition)
Put simply he was born to lead men.

[Johnny_H02]

the series about Shackleton is incredible.

I dont really believe I have a hero to be honest.

[LaoSexMachine]

John Brown the abolishinist. Went to the gallows knowing he did the right thing

[Rafter_Man]

I for my selve love "Commander Europa" ^^ .Thats no fiction beleave me.
He is a european union superhero destined to save europe from what ever and to educate little children about the European Union and there government without a constitution. He also teaches why it is important and live saving to catalog different forms of cucumber. Of course he is a historian as well and educates children about the history of the european Union beginning with the shattering of the third Reich (in this version by Captain America I guess ^^).

And I wonder what the hell those bureaucrats in Bruessel are working an spending money on right now to disabuse the the european people.

sincerely

Gordon

[zepic]

Karl von Roland, swedish hero

[Crassus]

Marcus Antonius, most loyal of Ceasar´s generals. He was the one that destroyed Ceasar´s murders and one of the second triumfprath.

...but he was stupid. He did not have the ambitious of Octavianous, late Augustus. And we all know what happened to Antonius and Cleopatra.

[Greek soldier]

Leonidas... 'Cos he had the guts and never surrendered to the enemy!!

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

Sir Leslie James Morshead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Morshead

[Anthony91]

Chesty Puller
Alexander the Great
Achilles [Myth]
Any U.S. black soldier who fought before the civil rights movement
Any U.S. Soldier, Marine, Airmen, or Sailer.

[Ea$y-8]

All the soldiers/marines/airmen/sailors who have fought for the United States of America (expect those that comitted war crimes).

[Zarathustra]

Napoléon Bonaparte

[MichaelF]

Augustus Caesar

[TR1]

Vasily Chuikov

[GrimReaper]

Yehoshua ben-Nun (Joshua)
Ehud ben-Gera
Shaul hamelch (King Saul)
The original Hasmoneans
Shimon bar-Cochva

[Buckeye67]

Simon Kenton
George Rogers Clark
Daniel Boone
Sam Brady
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the Corps of Discovery
**** Winters
Jake McNiece

Edit: I have to add, that really ANYONE who lived and especially those who fought through WW2 are heros to me.

Also, since the Olympics are on - I have to add the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team.

[wiking]

Napoleon Bonaparte
Duke of Wellington
Nelson
Norwegian General Otto Ruge (army commander during the fighting in Norway in 1940)
Rommel
Any German WW2 submariner

All of the men who participated in the "Shetland bus", Norwegian fishermen and the like who crossed with supplies and agents from Shetland to Norway in tiny fishing boats.

The British, French and Polish soldiers who fought on Norway's side in Norway in 1940

Richard Winters and several other members of E Company, 506th PIR, 101Ab.

[loserbydefault]

my heros are those american paranoid conspiracy nutjobs and kooks who fought in the american revolution.

and btw they also wore very stylish "tinfoil hats" ;) :roll:

[kuneho]

LTC Kurilla and CSM Prosser of Deuce 4 baby!!!

[Macabi]

Mordechai anielewicz,

Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising leader.

[FaDeR_SP]

Audie Murphy

[catalyst]

William Booth - Founder of The Salvation Army

[tyovan]

Mordechai anielewicz,

Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising leader.


x2

The ZOB were true heroes, I went to their memorial site in Warszawa. Very inspiring to be where they were.

[c46thva]

Bob Howard
**** Meadows
Frank Miller
Teddy Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight Eisenhower
R E Lee
John Wayne
Ronald Reagan

Not in any order

[moughoun]

Blair "Paddy" Mayne

[Omaha]

Chesty Puller

Tecumseh Sherman

General Grant

General Lee

Any man or woman that made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

[BigFuTN]

My hero:
Master Sgt. Michael L. McNulty God Bless you Mike, Paula, and kids
U.S. Army Special Operations Command KIA 6/17/2005

[OzMan]

Evel Knievel.

A man who consistently pushed the limits and defied death, without the "aid" of drugs and alcohol. Proof that extraordinary things are possible while sober.

Yes, I'm a straight-edge pu**y. I'm ready for the flames.

[Ratamacue]

I don't think I could sum up my hero into any one person. But to give you an idea of what a hero is made of, look up the name Rafael Peralta.

[BlackFlag]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/IronCross1985/ermeypoint_mug.jpg

[theholeinthedonut]

Alltough Hero might be little too strong a word, if there is one person in military history I truly admire its Laurie Törnie aka Larry Thorne.

[Para]

Casanova, lets face it he conquered every thing in sight

[Johnny_H02]

Major General John Frost

Not my personal hero, but a very noteworthy person, whos Book I will get soon :D

[ogukuo72]

Does she have to be military? If not, then it will be Mother Theresa.

[Roy Batty]

My father. He's a child protection officer and he sees sh1t everyday that I'm not sure I would know how to deal with and he somehow not only stays sane but honestly cares about every one of the kids he helps.




.........And my Grandfather because he was a dispatch rider in WWII (and I was luck enough to carry on the tradition in Afghanistan).

[Lazarou]

Alltough Hero might be little too strong a word, if there is one person in military history I truly admire its Laurie Törnie aka Larry Thorne.

x2

He was a great man.



And it's spelled Lauri Törni ;)

[jebirun]

Prophet Muhammad bin Addullah
Abu Bakar Al-Siddiq
Umar Al-Khattab
Osama bin Laden

[Moghi]

McGyver
Chuck

[Jani.R]

Prophet Muhammad bin Addullah
Abu Bakar Al-Siddiq
Umar Al-Khattab
Osama bin Laden

Do you plan long visit here?

[Para]

I think that Guy Gibson should be up with the greats, Guy Gibson was a bomber pilot with the RAf during WW2. Now six out of every 10 crews in Bomber Command would die during their first tour of 30 missions. Gibson died during his seventh tour of duty. Gibson had also wonn the VC for his exploits on the Dam Buster raids

[AIRBORNEJOCK]

My hero:
Master Sgt. Michael L. McNulty God Bless you Mike, Paula, and kids
U.S. Army Special Operations Command KIA 6/17/2005

whats the deal with this bloke any info?

[Ea$y-8]

Do you plan long visit here?

http://img58.photobucket.com/albums/v177/nickodemus/Internet%20Argument%20Pictures/troll.jpg

[wiking]

http://img58.photobucket.com/albums/v177/nickodemus/Internet%20Argument%20Pictures/troll.jpg

That's wrong, the best way to deal with a troll problem of this type is to shoot them. After long discussion on a Norwegian hunting and shooting forum, experts there came to the conclusion that the necessary caliber should be .50BMG (that's my opinion), though some believe that internet trolls only require .22 short, .32 or .380 possibly, above that would be just overkill. Personally i say .50 just for the hell of it.

p-)

[Telnyashka]

trolling pic

Having Prophet Muhammed as your hero isnt bad at all, the rest well...he can have his opinion.

[BigFuTN]

Hey AIRBORNEJOCK, He was KIA in Al Qaim, Iraq with his team-mate Master Sgt. Robert M. Horrigan by small arms fire. One of a handful of the most elite soldiers America has to offer. Not sure his family would want me to go into specifics and I know it isn't declassified yet, but he was an unbelievable soldier and loved his family very much. Someone to look up to and to aspire to be like.

[saintM]

This topic made me think.. Think it this guy:

Anders Lassen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Frederik_Emil_Victor_Schau_Lassen

Today there is an Anders Lassen foundation that has the following purpose:
To reward distingusihed millitary service.
To give financial support to members or former members of Danish Special Forces units for special contribution or to those persons relatives.
To support wound or injured Danish military presonell.
To consider support to persons involved in humitarian work.

Regarding what makes a hero.. In my world standing up what you believe in is enough!

http://isupportdenmark.com/index.asp
( I know it's OFF TOPIC but have received some letters from you guys where it was mentioned..one way or another - but always with great support)

Thanks guys!

[SuperShot5000]

http://www.scborromeo.org/images/saints/kolbe.jpg
Fr. Maximilian Kolbe - Catholic Priest who took the place of a Jewish man, condemned to die at Auschwitz.

http://www.spiritlijn.com/ghandi.jpg
Mohandas Ghandi - His philosophy of nonviolence and his passion for independence began a drive for freedom that doomed colonialism.

http://212.84.179.117/i/Albert%20Einstein.jpg
Albert Einstein - With just a pen and paper, he peeked farther behind Nature's curtain than anyone had since Newton — then spent the rest of his years living it down. Now, when we think of genius, we see his face.

http://www.eaec.org/images/newsletter/2005/Jan-Feb/Franklin%20Roosevelt.jpg
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - He lifted the U.S. out of economic despair and revolutionized the American way of life. Then he helped make the world safe for democracy

Last but not least, my grandfather - 40+ years in Army, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Gulf War I war hero and led my family out of poverty when the odds were against him.

[Roy Batty]

Super, Thanks for introducing me to the story of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a truly amazing man.

[Apathy]

General George S. Patton.

[evanfitz]

Jesus

my grandpa (korean & vietnam vet)

[Holycrusader]

Super, Thanks for introducing me to the story of Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a truly amazing man.

The story is more interesting if know something about his prewar activity. He was missionary in Japan and china (the second Im not sure). But more interesting thing... His chapter and as I remember chapter newspaper he work for was known from antisemitic statements before the war. But when the time come he give his life for a Jewish...

Truly great man of his time...

[MARINO]

Hood :lol:

[Mastermind]

Sp-4 Jerry Smith - Saved my life in Vietnam and then later died in battle taking my place after I was wounded.

SP-4 Charlie Brown (Yes! That was his real name)...my driver who pulled me out of a smoldering M-113 after we hit a mine.

U.S. Grant...a great leader of men in battle and a true warrior.

Chief Joseph ...A man fiercely dedicated to his people.

Sitting Bull...(see one above)

Sir Winston Chruchill...A man who knew how to win against incredible odds.

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lawrence_Chamberlain) of *****sburg Little Round Top fame...a gentle and quiet man of extraodinary bravery.

Admiral Yamamoto...A deeply dedicated military man who obeyed his commanders and served his nation without complaint, knowing full well the futility of it all.

Erwin Rommel...an incredible leader of men and brilliant tactician who was ready to sacrifice everything for his nation and ultimatley did.

Every Marine and Airborne trooper who ever fought in combat.

The above are just my short list top ten. MM

[SuperShot5000]

Erwin Rommel...an incredible leader of men and brilliant tactician who was ready to sacrifice everything for his nation and ultimatley did.


This kid I know is supposedly Erwin Rommel's great-great-grandnephew.
I think he's bull****ting though.
He's cool but a total skinhead-facist kid.

[Kicius]

Maybe "hero" isn't the best word. But I always admired Brigade General Mikołaj Bołtuć. He was author of the shortest and in my opinion the best (much moving) critique about "achivements" of some polish commanders in 1939 September Campaing.

He said " If I die, let everybody know, that me and the Army died because of this m.....ker". He died few days later, leading rest of his man to desperate attack on their way to encircled Warsaw.

[wiking]

This kid I know is supposedly Erwin Rommel's great-great-grandnephew.
I think he's bull****ting though.
He's cool but a total skinhead-facist kid.

Then he's the greatest insult to his great-great granduncle's memory, Erwin Rommel singelhandedly kept the SS and all the shyte they brought with them out of North Africa. Beat him over the head with something hard and tell him he's a damned bastard for me.

[AIRBORNEJOCK]

Hey AIRBORNEJOCK, He was KIA in Al Qaim, Iraq with his team-mate Master Sgt. Robert M. Horrigan by small arms fire. One of a handful of the most elite soldiers America has to offer. Not sure his family would want me to go into specifics and I know it isn't declassified yet, but he was an unbelievable soldier and loved his family very much. Someone to look up to and to aspire to be like.

fair one thats enough for me was only wondering wether he was your buddy or something.

[BigFuTN]

AIRBORNEJOCK, his brother is my brother in law.

[Abbadon the Despoiler]

Josef Bryks

http://www.praha14.cz/%7Elisty/2004/7/listy7_8_28_0001.jpg

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=137839

[Stainless Steel Rat]

Abraham Lincoln. Who was, in some ways, a better military strategist than many of his Generals.

And if you don't mind a heroine....

Rosa Parks. Seldom has staying seated and saying no started so much.

[Aerosoul]

Ralph Lauren.

[gaijinsamurai]

Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Evans Carlson, Merrit Edson, Peter Ortiz, Erwin Rommel, John Basilone, Tony Stein, Chesty Puller, Holland Smith, Joseph Bordelon, Alexander Bonnyman, David Shoup, William Hawkins, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Benjamin Franklin, and about a hundred or so others.

[mudbunny]

I'm not real big on labeling military commanders as hero's, it's usually the mass media or newspapers that make hero's out of these men. (the thought of labeling Patton as a hero makes my stomach turn)
I think that the hero's in warfare are the one's who don't get to come home; it's that simple.
My personal favorites throughout contemporary history are probably Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan of Arc, Marcus Hamilton Houston, Booker T. Washington.
I also refuse to put any President on a pedastool, calling them a hero, because running a country is big business, and Presidents are glorified businessmen.
I've also seen a poster put up a picture of FDR, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that you didn't know that FDR successfully veto'd anti-lynching legislation and didn't do a damn thing for black Americans. His wife, Eleanor, did far more than he ever considered doing. FDR's new deal was a step in the right direction of ending the depression, but it only cme to end when the United States entered WWII. I can't consider a man a hero for that.
Not to get all sappy, but the hero's in everyday life are your school teachers, firemen, policemen, or any coomon man who takes a stand against any form of injustice that he sees.
Tom Joad.

[jphil03]

Hard to label hero's, But if i could classify them, any men or women who have fought in any war, either on the good or bad side. They all carry burdens of such things i could not ever imagine.

[budgie]

**** Winters for sure. The epitome of a humble citizen soldier and upstanding human being - the kind of person we should aspire to be in everyday life: knuckle down and do the job and do it right, no ego.

John Macejunas - what a stud! Went out three times! That's a man-crush right there I don't care who you are...

[pacifist]

Hans and Sophie Scholl, Raoul Wallenberg, Martin Luther King, Mikhail Gorbachev etc.

Anyone who does something good deserves a respect.

[LineDoggie]

My Father- US Army
My Grandfathers- Both US Army & US Navy during WWI(one shoveled Coal on Four stacker Destroyers near Queenstown).
My Granduncle Frank- KIA on the Ourque River in France October 15th, 1918 with the 165th Inf, A.co.
http://www.abmc.gov/search/detailw.php
Entered the Service from: New York
Died: October 15, 1918
Buried at: Plot C Row 27 Grave 37
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
My "Uncle" Bill H/3/15 6MARDIV USMC,
SPC. Danny Swift, Medic HHC 1/69 Infantry-Bravest man I ever met.

[matthew.manhorn]

Chinese: Sun Yat-Sen, Zhou Enlai, Deng XiaoPing, Emperor Kang Xi, Emperor Tang Tai Zhong
American: Adam Smith, Paul Tibbets, Nimitz, MacArthur, Ronald Reagen, Bill Clinton
German: Erich Von Manstein, Guderian, Von Kleist, Rommel
Jew: Yonathan Netanyahu, Giora Epstein, Armand Hammer, Silas Aaron Hardoon
Russian: Rescue squad in Beslan, Conscripts during the Battle of Grozny, 1st Chechen war. Chuikov, Putin, Mikhail Koshkin, Mikhail Kalashnikov
Japanese: Japanese American soldiers during WW2

[gaijinsamurai]

Adam Smith was British.

[Sloppy Joe2]

my Plt Sgt, SFC Campbell.

smart, hardass, true patriot, and he treated us like his sons. my god i feared the man though p-)

[matthew.manhorn]

Adam Smith was British.

He is American because he is a capitalist

[boone]

My Pop.
A "hard man" but gentle at the same time. If that makes any sense.
RCN early 60's
I can only hope to be 1/2 the man he is.

[wildcat]

my Plt Sgt, SFC Campbell.

smart, hardass, true patriot, and he treated us like his sons. my god i feared the man though p-)

I with you on that one, my Heros are

SFC Gabbard, One tough NCO, never do you want to cross his path, but the man was beacon of light, a pillar of strength, and had a heart of Gold.
SGM Backscheider This man put fear into us soldiers and NCO's kept us going striaght, push us when we want to quit, stood back when there was paise to be given, Cared for his soldiers, never thought twice about putting is life in harms way for others.

[gaijinsamurai]

He is American because he is a capitalist

Okay!!!!!!!!!
Does that make Karl Marx a Russian?

[seraosha]

My eldest daughter.

Her love and trust in me saw me through some of the most difficult times I've lived through. You see more single dads now, but in '95, I was the only one I'd met. Mr. Mom...you want to insult a single father, call him Mr. Mom.

My kid's a teenager now, and is just getting a grasp of how strong and intelligent she is. She gets embarrassed, so I don't tell her she's my hero often, but she knows.

[matthew.manhorn]

Okay!!!!!!!!!
Does that make Karl Marx a Russian?

Karl Marx is Jewish therefore Jews invented communism!

[kawaiku]

Ernie Pyle, all those who served and made the ultimate sacrifice for the country, Lance Armstrong, and my best friend who is going to become a combat medic for the US Marine Corps.

[Billy No Mates]

Horatio Nelson an aggresive inspirational commander who tempered those traits with an innate humanity,really deserved the poet Byron's epithet 'Britannia's god of war' .

Jean Parisot de la Vallete grand master of the Knights of St John during the siege of Malta moral courage and physical bravery from a man in his late sixties inspired a miraculous victory over a Turkish army that was the pre eminent power of its time .

[IanSolo]

Alexander the Great


Paolo Caccia Dominioni



Alpini of the WWI and WWII and Folgore paratroopers of El Alamein


and every man that is doing his duty in everyday life/work in this ****ing world.

[helomech]

My parents for keeping it all together while raising the five of us kids

Adults from the Greatest Generation who sacrificed so much both abroad and at home

Rommel,Von Stauffenberg and others who tried to end Hitlers reign of terror against the world

The men and women of todays armed forces for volunteering to do what needs to be done to maintain our freedom

[Basillicus]

I don't believe in this hero stuff. A lot of people are capable of extraordinary things in certain situations, but every person also has his own flaws. There are some people who I respect for something they have done but I look up to or idolize no one as there is no such thing as a perfect human being.

[Flagg]

My wife.....for putting up with me, my mongrel dog, and our two hell spawn boys......she's outnumbered four to one...and is still winning.

[Stonewall71]

Ayrton Senna
http://www.funof1.com.ar/im/pi198401019_1994_maxiD.jpg


Robert E. Lee
http://www.freespiritart.com/images/robert-e-lee-schmehl.jpg


not really "Heroes" but men that inspire me by their lifes, their way of thinking, their relations with other human beings, their qualities...and also their defects

[Bushranger]

Id have to say my Mum, for bringing up 5 kids & putting up with my dad.

[Ravage]

My old man. Always was, always will be.


The men and women of todays armed forces for volunteering to do what needs to be done to maintain our freedom

that too

[Finn76]

Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne


Törni WW2 photo
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Miscellaneous/SC6-3.gif

Törni, now as Thorne post WW2
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Larry_Thorne.jpg

Thorne in Vietnam, where he went MIA

http://mikecleverley.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Thornes_last_flight_adj.133101947_std.jpg

[Ichabod]

Marshall Tito

Admiral Yi Sun-shin

My parents and my brother of course.

[Fiber]

Nelson Mandela. Happy Birthday Madiba!
My mom.
My cousin for the job he is doin in Afghanistan and for the ability to drink me under the table. You have come a long way young man! Cheers!

[El Diablo Rojo]

I have a lot of heroes, but a few recently come to mind, and they are the 9 men of 2nd Battalion, 503rd PIR who lost their lives in Afghanistan last week.

[jackehammond]

Folks,

I think first we should agree on what is considered by the term BEING A HERO.



Jack E. Hammond

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[PrinzEugen]

Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne



Good choice. I'm currently waiting for the book A Scent of Glory: The Times and Life of Larry A. Thorne.
Here he is in all three uniforms he wore.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2930/torni1qe3.jpg

[Spaz]

Richard Winters, Rommel, Abraham Lincoln, Simo Hayha

[The Dane]

Thor of course....

[retrobob]

My father, ex RN and MN who passed away 15 years ago.He would have been 81 on the 28th of July.Worked hard all his life providing all that he could for my mother and I,died just two months shy of retiring.A quiet,unasuming man who detested showoffs.Born in the 'colonies' to English parents he was 'British to his Backbone' and proud of it. Did alot of things and travelled the World in his younger days,alot of which I didn't know about 'til after he died.In a very short list of heroes he'll always be at the top.
The other heroes would be Polar explorers Scott and Shackleton.As a young boy they were the first 'heroes' that I was ever exposed to(from my Father).For all their strengths (and failings) I've been a strong admirer of both ever since.

[jackehammond]

I don't believe in this hero stuff. A lot of people are capable of extraordinary things in certain situations, but every person also has his own flaws. There are some people who I respect for something they have done but I look up to or idolize no one as there is no such thing as a perfect human being.

Dear Member,

There was something I remember that General Pershing the commander of American forces in France during WW1 stated about Sgt York (he was a crack shot and killed a large number of Germans and cause over a hundred to surrender) who was awarded the US Medal of Honor. He stated that yes he respected Sgt York. But he believed that Sgt York was one of those men who does not feel fear or is not effected by fear. Basically osme people are naturally brave and Sgt York was doing what came natural to him. The soldier Pershing said he respected was the one in the trench who is scared totally out of his wits, has messed (ie sh*t) his pants and then when the whistle is blown, still goes over the top of the trench and attacks the Germans.

Jack E. Hammond

.

[one-niner]

Three-way tie, I think:


Anders Lassen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Frederik_Emil_Victor_Schau_Lassenx 2

Robert Baden-Powell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell%2C_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell

Bjarne Slot Christiansen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_S_Christiansen

[LongShot]

Benjamin Franklin
Howard Bloom
Miyamoto Mushashi
Voltaire

[OMON]

I'am your hero

[Junkelf]

Sharkey Ward

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Sharkey'_Ward

[IraGlacialis]

For historical figures, there are others, but these are the five that first came to mind:
Cyrus the Great
Jesus Christ
Saladin
Martin Luther King
Pope John Paul II

In a broader sense:
My parents
The members of our armed service giving their time, sweat, blood, and, even lives for us.

[Mordecai]

My father.

32 year Army man who saw combat in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Taught me its future generation's RESPONSIBILITY to continue to pay for what his generation paid for me... And the right thing is right regardless of how unpopular it may be.

[matthew.manhorn]

Han GaoZu Emperor Liu Bang

[kosse]

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[OrangeWolf]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2774978082_7a0b9e8644_m.jpg
(bigger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2774978082_f22266e8ce_o.jpg)
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (יונתן "יוני" נתניהו), leader of Operation Entebbe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe).

&

Meir Har-Zion.

[Asp]

I'd like to preface my entry with two remarks, neither of which is intended as a "shot" against the many excellent posts:
(1): There are many historical figures I admire and respect (**** Winters, Abraham Lincoln ect); my "heroes" are people I've actually met and gotten to know, and
(2): Heroes don't have to be perfect, nor do they have to live like heroes for thier entire lives to qualify as such. Like geniuses, a hero only ahs to be a hero once to qualify. Once when it counted.

That said, my hero is Major-General Lewis MacKenzie. Best boss, best leader, I have ever known. Everyone since falls short. He stood up every time, even when everyone else sat down.

[popeyeturbo]

agar adamson

[Laconian]

My dad. He is the biggest inspiration/example to me of what men should be like: hard working, selfless, duty-bound, self reliant and honorable. He and my mom raised 4 kids on a blue-collar salary and saw that we never did without, though he often did. A great coach/teacher, a hard task master that expected more from himself than anyone else, but he always made time for a joke or a ball game or a ping-pong match.

[Sabaka Babaka]

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Stalin1.jpg/225px-Stalin1.jpg

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Georgi_Zhukov_in_1940.jpg/250px-Georgi_Zhukov_in_1940.jpg

[Callo]

My dad. He is the biggest inspiration/example to me of what men should be like: hard working, selfless, duty-bound, self reliant and honorable. He and my mom raised 4 kids on a blue-collar salary and saw that we never did without, though he often did. A great coach/teacher, a hard task master that expected more from himself than anyone else, but he always made time for a joke or a ball game or a ping-pong match.

Respect for your dad. :)

I have a deep sense of honor towards every single soldier, living or dead, who has fought for their life in a hostile environment for someone else's sake. I wish I could share their pain.

[CHERK]

My Grandfather,

Someone who I consider to be an etalon for a man. Honorable man who never betrayed his principals, put his family first, smart, strong and always had a joke to cheer you up, influenced and helped hundreds of people.

Participated in WW2, in the capacity of Intelligence/Reconnaissance Officer, numerous missions deep behind enemy lines, helped in organizing partisan movement in Belarus. Started in 1942 as a Junior Lieutenant, by the end of the war in 1945 was a Lt-Colonel.

Proud to be named after you!

RIP

[Abbadon the Despoiler]

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin


please explain to me why is Stalin, that dead evil bastard, your hero?

[Junkelf]

please explain to me why is Stalin, that dead evil bastard, your hero?

The only answer to that is that he is flaming....that cannot be serius

[Unifil 37]

Has to be Ron Jeremy! No doubt about it!!

[frenchy]

Has to be Ron Jeremy! No doubt about it!!

The **** actor ?:)

I don't know who's my hero, perhaps the silver surfer.

[Nephilim]

my grand granny
served in ww2 as a medic with the russians.
still the funniest and smartest person i know.

[Charpoy Major]

My Grandfather, Kings Liverpool Regt, 8th(Irish) Batt. Somme, wounded, unfit for service, made his living thereafter as a Marine Fireman, stoking ships boilers on the Western Ocean run right up to 1937, some man.

[LaoSexMachine]

My parents. Came to America with six kids and $200 dollars in their pockets. I am amaze on how they did it.

[Rynnäkkökivääri]

Anybody who answered the call and stepped up to defend their country, family, or somebody else.

If I had to give a name though I'd say this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha

[Yarrick2]

I have a friend who died a year and a half ago, fell through thin ice. The divers who went in to recover his body in sub zero temps at 3 in the morning are my hero's. In fact I'm in a class with one of them one of the greatest persons that I've ever met.