Who Are Your Heroes?

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:01 pm

Ever since I was a kid I have always looked at the test pilot-Astronauts as real life heroes. Men like John Glenn & Neal Armstrong who can knowingly face death for a greater purpose are the real heroes to me.( I'm not much into sport stars or movie actors as heroes...never have been).
I highly recommend the Tom Wolfe book "The Right Stuff" to turn us all into hero worshipers! (not the movie.....the book)

Who do you consider a real life hero, if anyone?

tsb · Post by **tsb** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:06 pm

Devil,

Thought you would be more of a Chuck Yeager guy.
With balls as big as his you wonder how he ever got in the cockpit.

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:10 pm

tsb wrote:Devil,

Thought you would be more of a Chuck Yeager guy.
With balls as big as his you wonder how he ever got in the cockpit.

A real hero tsb---Agreed!
(did you read about him in "The Right Stuff".........a whole chapter on him!)

hugg · Post by **hugg** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:11 pm

Peter North. Talent

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:12 pm

hugg wrote:Peter North. Talent

LOL...the porno guy?

tsb · Post by **tsb** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:15 pm

Devil,

After Yeager would be Kelly Johnson. He developed the Black Bird.
A plane that is still ahead of its' time.

TSB

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:18 pm

tsb wrote:Devil,

After Yeager would be Kelly Johnson. He developed the Black Bird.
A plane that is still ahead of its' time.

TSB

The blackbird, the U-2, the P-38 Lightening, the Shooting Star...........A brilliant guy & head of Lockheed's "Skunkworks" for years! ....(but a hero??)

hugg · Post by **hugg** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:20 pm

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Mon. Dec. 22, 2008 9:23 pm

hugg wrote:yep.

He's gotta be so old now that he probably can't stand erect let alone..........

SuperBeetle · Post by **SuperBeetle** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 7:56 am

Man that's a tough one.

Samuel Colt

John Browning

Meriwether Lewis

William Clark

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 8:15 am

SuperBeetle wrote:Meriwether Lewis

The Lewis gun?

SuperBeetle · Post by **SuperBeetle** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 8:36 am

Devil505 wrote:
The Lewis gun?

No

Meriwether Lewis
(1774-1809)
"undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this country has ever known."

SuperBeetle · Post by **SuperBeetle** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 8:40 am

The Lewis Gun was invented by Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911.

Devil505 · Post by **Devil505** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 8:54 am

SuperBeetle wrote:No

Meriwether Lewis
(1774-1809)
"undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this country has ever known."

Ah......Didn't put the two (Lewis & Clark) together in your earlier post.

kootch88 · Post by **kootch88** » Tue. Dec. 23, 2008 9:38 am

Devil505 wrote:Ever since I was a kid I have always looked at the test pilot-Astronauts as real life heroes. Men like John Glenn & Neal Armstrong who can knowingly face death for a greater purpose are the real heroes to me.( I'm not much into sport stars or movie actors as heroes...never have been).
I highly recommend the Tom Wolfe book "The Right Stuff" to turn us all into hero worshipers! (not the movie.....the book)

Who do you consider a real life hero, if anyone?

Here is the definition. We over use the term these days, calling athletes and common folk heroes, when in reality, a hero is a very uncommon person.

1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.

The Right Stuff. Fantastic book. Never saw the movie becuase the book was so good I couldn't imagine the movie being btter. Yeager was the man!