Thread: Have Any Heroes?

Winston Churchill would top my list.

Originally Posted by ShawneeMoon

My Dad

What a great thing to say!

Originally Posted by Bourne

My father. 32 missions over Germany co-piloting a B-17. 27 missions over Korea piloting a B-29. 28 missions over Laos and N. Vietnam piloting a B-52D and commanding a B-52 squadron. He retired from the USAF in 75. He died of cardiac arrest in 84.

Originally Posted by Bourne

My father. 32 missions over Germany co-piloting a B-17. 27 missions over Korea piloting a B-29. 28 missions over Laos and N. Vietnam piloting a B-52D and commanding a B-52 squadron. He retired from the USAF in 75. He died of cardiac arrest in 84. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him and wish that I could talk to him. He made me what I am today and I thank him for it.

My father died of cancer when I was 11 years old (he was only 42) but I feel the same way as you in wishing I could talk to him as an adult. My father had a great sense of humor & I remember him walking into the living room when I was watching "Captain Midnight" (kids TV hero in the early 1950's)...My dad said "I'm Capt. Eleven O'clock.......I do everything Capt Midnight does....but an hour earlier!"....Never forgot that line!!

Edit: I'm 63 years old..... but I still can't talk about the day my mother told me that my father had died without choking up. Makes you grow up real quick & realize how vulnerable we all are. (things like that are only supposed to happen to others, right?)

Originally Posted by ShawneeMoon

My Dad

AMEN! Miss Moon. My father was my hero as well, along with Ernest Richard Kouma, Barry Goldwater, and Ron Paul

Originally Posted by Bourne

My father. 32 missions over Germany co-piloting a B-17. 27 missions over Korea piloting a B-29. 28 missions over Laos and N. Vietnam piloting a B-52D and commanding a B-52 squadron. He retired from the USAF in 75. He died of cardiac arrest in 84. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him and wish that I could talk to him. He made me what I am today and I thank him for it.

How marvelous. My compliments, Sir. Surviving the 32 missions over Germany was a marvelous feat within itself. Everything else was gravy.

Like you, not a day goes by I don't miss my Dad. To have had your Dad for as long as you did was obviously a great blessing. Mine died one month shy of his 77th in '89.

Ditto on Dad; two tours in Viet Nam, former enlisted Marine then career Army officer and pilot. I've wanted to follow in his footsteps since I was a tyke.

Brother is also a hero. Another career Army pilot who started out as an enlisted Army combat engineer now about to fly his third year long tour for the WOT. Afghanistan with the 101st next March.

There are many others who aren't relatives, most of which are military. About the only politician who comes to mind is Charles Wilson.

My dad died two years ago last fall at the age of 89. He knew it was coming, and said he was OK with it, as he had a "good long run". I thought he could do anything. Still do, to a degree. He built us a house in the '50s. I don't mean he contracted someone else to build it, he did it all except for having the well drilled.

Mahatma Ghandi has always been on my hero list, as has Winston Churchill.

Then there's my great grandfather, who made friends with Pancho Villa. I didn't know him, but he must have been quite a guy.