I need a Hero!

[Dasquian Belargic]

I have to do a communication project on 'Heroes' at college, but I can't for the life of me think of someone to do. They have to be a real person, no fictional characters. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful :)

[Commander Zemil Vymes]

Major Richard "Dick" Winters, US Army 101st Airborne Division.


End of thread.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Don't hit me, but I don't know who he is. Tell me why he's a hero.

[Eluna Thals]

Read and/or watch Band of Brothers.

[Dasquian Belargic]

So he's a real person? I didn't know that was based on a truestory.

[Eluna Thals]

One of the best adaptations of a true story to the screen, ever.

[Droo]

If I had to write a project on a hero then it would be Nelson Mandella. :)

[Daiquiri Van-Derveld]

What about the Chinese student who held off the tank in Tiannamen Square?

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by Dru
If I had to write a project on a hero then it would be Nelson Mandella. :)

I remember speaking to him ;) :D


What scale are you talking?

[Dasquian Belargic]

It doesn't matter. It just needs to be someone who is a 'hero', in any sense of the word, except 'super' :mneh

[Ace McCloud]

Beowulf. =) Old, very old, but real enough.

[ReaperFett]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
It doesn't matter. It just needs to be someone who is a 'hero', in any sense of the word, except 'super' :mneh
So Im out the running ;)

[Travis North]

The person who invented the wheel. People oh billions to that person. Think about it if it wasn't invented.

[James Prent]

Originally posted by Travis North
The person who invented the wheel. People oh billions to that person. Think about it if it wasn't invented.

That would be the Sumerians. They also invented writing. Cool, nu?

[imported_Firebird1]

Speaking of Barbanians!

Conan!!!!

[Darth Viscera]

Anwar Sadat

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/sadat/

He brought between Egypt and Israel, and the muslim fanatics killed him for it, so he's a martyr and a hero.

[spada]

Sgt. 1st Class Randy Shughart
Master Sgt. Gary Gordon

http://www.snipercountry.com/SC~MOH.htm

you probobly know them from "Black Hawk Down".

[Dasquian Belargic]

I'd really like someone who is not a US army guy

[Senator Thareena]

How about...

...

Rosa Parks?

[Charley]

Carlos Hathcock

[Telan Desaria]

very well.

And the 101st slaughtered hundreds of POWs between June of 44 and May of 45, so that's not an option. Watch the show and they kill unarmed soldiers.

Perhaps my heroes might be of help.

Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel - excellent tactician and devoted family man. Forced to commit suicide for complicity in plot to eliminate Adolf Hitler.

Generaloberst Werner von Fritsch - German Staff officers. Accused of homosexuality by hitler and forced to resign. Killed in Poland after accepting an honorary commission in a Brandenburg regiment.

Amerikan General George S. Patton - enough said.

Admiral Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky - stern disciplinarian and Russian commander at the battle of Tsushima. Did not blame his men for defeat, knowing they did their best. He blamed their officers and made that clear while in captivity. Welcomed home as a hero during a time of revolution.

They are the tops. Others include Tsar Peter the Great, Alexander the Great, Friederich III the Great, Count Leo Tolstoy, et al.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
I'd really like someone who is not an army guy, from any country.

Fixed.

[CrimsonDiablo]

I still say Matthew Good Dasq :P

[Telan Desaria]

ah. Then rule out my suggestions.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

The Wright Bros. for inventing the airplane?

[Silus Xilarian]

I still say Monty Python

[Charley]

Originally posted by Telan Desaria
And the 101st slaughtered hundreds of POWs between June of 44 and May of 45, so that's not an option. Watch the show and they kill unarmed soldiers.

You must have obviously missed the part where that incident was unsubstantiated hearsay :rolleyes

[Telan Desaria]

your incident is missing an s. It happened much more than once.

[Charley]

I'm referring to the show itself.

As for the "bigger picture", please find me the oh-so-chivalrous group that has never done this. Your "knight in shining armor" concept of warfare isn't compatible with reality.

[Telan Desaria]

how not? When Truman dropped an atom bomb, did officers find themselves executed for opposing him? No, wait, that happened when Hitler continued to press a genocidal war on the rest of the world.

Chivalry exists, if we have the courage to exhibit it.

[Dasquian Belargic]

HEY. No spam tag. Take your debate elsewhere, please.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
HEY. No spam tag. Take your debate elsewhere, please.

What s/he said.

[ReaperFett]

What about Churchill? Not an army guy.


Einstein? Brunel?

[Dasquian Belargic]

I thought about Churchill, yeah, but I think there are a handful of people already doing him. It's tough!

[Charley]

There is an old Attorney General in Alabama named Morris Dees who went on some Captain Ahab-ish vendetta war against the KKK.

Its been on a few history channel specials. Somebody sent him a death threat in the mail, and he replied to it like this:

Dear Sir:

Kiss my (insert colloquialism for posterior here).

Sincerely,
Morris Dees
State of Alabama Attorney General

[Telan Desaria]

Sorry.

[Darth Viscera]

Anwar Sadat!

[Charley]

Yeah you said that already :rolleyes

[Darth Viscera]

emphasis, baby

[Tear]

Mother Teresa?

[Lion El' Jonson]

Obviously, this forum is filled with too many history buffs if nearly every suggestion includes a guy from World War II. :lol

How about Christopher Reeves? Or Stephen Hawking? Neither of them allowed their disabilities to stop them from contributing to the world. I think Stephen Hawking deserves to be a hero sheerly because he wrote a book about Time that anybody can understand...that's a bloody lot of work. ^_^;

[Commander Zemil Vymes]

Christopher Reeves is rotting in a wheelchair and doing nothing.

Stephen Hawking is a relatively mediocre scientist, compared to his peers.

[Lion El' Jonson]

Christopher Reeves is currently donating money to research and...wait, nevermind, he's not doing much, you're right. :lol

However, how many of Stephen Hawking's peers have taken the time to explain their theories in english that a fairly-educated mind could understand? And done all of that while confined to a wheelchair, with little control over their muscles? True, he may not be the end-all for scientists, but he's done a lot considering what he has to work with.

I'm going to leave it at that, as this is Jen's thread, and I hate debating with people smarter than me. ^_^;