Who are your heroes?
 

Penn & Teller
Trey Parker & Matt Stone
LTC Erik Kurilla (as detailed by Michael Yon)

Single mothers who do a good job of raising their children are very high on my list. People who have every reason to be jaded yet remain positive and upbeat. People who take limited resources and overcome great resistence to accomplish great things. People who do not accept their limitations. People who forsake personal gain to right an injustice.

I don't have names for you but I see people like this from time to time and it is very inspiring.

Prince Lazarus Long
Princess Maureen
Dave Thomas
Wendy
Ray Kroc
Poet William McGonagall
PeeWee Herman

trent reznor
Cauchy
Fermat
Eisenstein
Einstein
Kepler
etc

my dad

awwwww :sniff:

Undertoad
footfootfoot's dad
:2cents:

Definitely my dad.

As a group, I would say my whole family. They rock!

Ronald Reagan
Penn Gillette
Richard "Dick" Bong
Bob Hoover
all the Mercury astronauts...heck ALL of the astronauts! Very brave people!
the first guy to eat an egg

We have a (now closed) airbase right here on the border of Grandview. We used to get a big kick out of the fact that they have street named after Richard Bong...Bong Avenue.

We were stoned hippies back then.

Dick Bong? Ace of Aces? Now that's funny.

My heroes tend to be simple people faced with unusual or difficult circumstances who tend to get little or no recognition for their actions. Cops, firefighters, people who make a positive difference in the lives of others.

And Gene Roddenberry.

;)

I have incredible respect and admiration for all of the faceless individuals who overcome odds or do a great job without ever being thanked, but to me a "hero" is someone who does something I can't, and does it right.

For example, I second Undertoad's listing of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, because they represent the epitome of moderate political/social views, but more importantly, they are truly successful at getting their opinions out there in a concise, intelligent, and palatable way. Unlike pundits, they genuinely have the ability to change people's minds with their medium, and they try to do it. They make a difference in a way I couldn't.

Darnit! How could I have forgotten Chuck Yeager, Gen, USAF, ret

I got to speak to him one day at a book signing on base...fascinating stories he had too. I could have sat and listened to him all day long.

Mine just posted.