Personal heroes that you have?

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I know that many here have their own personal individual heroes like most of us. Mom, Dad, Jesus based on teachings or some other person who has affected their lives and they have grown from that but beyond that a person in history who if you could be that person or have been inspired by them.

My two favorites.

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne - Wikipedia

Henri de la Tour d'Auverne Viscount of Turenne, typically just called Turenne. French Grand Marshal, Marshal of the Armies and greatest French general until Napoleon and if you read Napoleon's writings a big influence on Bonaparte, expert at manuever warfare.

From a military man to a person of the cloth who had great compassion during the witch trials in Germany and those who suffered from that.

Friedrich Spee - Wikipedia

Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld, SJ

Friedrich Spee - Jesuits Ireland

Friedrich Spee sometimes called Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. Jesuit priest, teaching theology and logic, a writer of hymns, but best known as the author of the book Cautio Criminalis which took time but eventually lead to the end of the witch trials, torture and killing that happened from those things in Germany. As you can probably tell by the above I find Spee highly.
 
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Alvin York, was pretty much my first Hero! More for his work with Hill People during WWII Than his exploits from WWI!

Because of his constant pushing, around 9 battalions of men who couldn't read, got the education they needed and became members of the Army, and then qualified for the GI bill after the war, giving them and their families a step out of the poverty that controlled their lives!

Ivan
 
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Going with my Navy Buddy,
Frank Standrig.
Guadalcanal Cactus Air Force, was shot down and in the water couple of days,
Carrier Landed a F4F standing on its prop. As pictured in Life Magazine.
Went to British Test Pilot School, one of the first Navy Pilots to become Jet Qualified.
How did I know him?
He had a Gun Store in CO!
 
Hugh Thompson. He put everything on the line when he stopped the Mỹ Lai Massacre.
The 300 Spartans.
Fictional character: Big Bad John
 
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As someone said: "My heroes are all dead."

My Dad, died at the age of 49 from a stroke. My Mother, a true hero and one tough Lady. Raised 4 kids after Dad died, taught us right from wrong, loved us unconditionally. My older siblings, who helped Mom, and practically raised us while our Mother worked at BRECON sewing powder bags during the war. My Brother-in-Law, Dewey Lee Crosson, a WWII veteran and a good man. Ole George and his buddy that I can't remember his name, drank homebrew when they carried me fishing as a kid. Bud Crosson, a brother to Dewey, also a WWII vet, a paratrooper, never met a stranger. He carried me fishing one year while I was staying with my Sister during the summer. I carried two pieces of fried chicken in the bib pocket of my overalls, when the water was to deep for me to wade, Bud just grabbed me by the galluses, picked me up and away we went. Bud died alone and friendless in Mobile, Alabama, was probably dead two weeks before he was found. He had nightmares about the war and drowned them with alcohol.

I can't go on, my hero memories make my eyes blurry.

Have a blessed day,

Leon
 
Too many to name.

One who stands out is Charlemagne (Charles the Great) who stopped the Saracen invasion of Western Europe. I think they need him now!

Lord Dowding, hero of the Battle of Britain.

So many more...
 
Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson (hunted man-eating cats in India), John A. Hunter, Audie Murphy, Karamojo Bell, Sasha Siemel, Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, Maj. Richard Bong (America's top fighter ace; 40 kills, all against Japan, from a P-38). Col. John Mosby, CSA.

Add Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews (explorer, hunter, naturalist) and Nicholas Copernicus and I suppose, Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Christiaan Barnard in medicine. The first cured polio and the other performed the first successful heart transplant.

He was an enemy of the USA, but who can deny that Maj. Erich Hartmann (352 aerial kills!) wasn't both brave and a decent man, who risked much to try to protect his men while in Soviet captivity after the war, the US having foolishly turned him over to the Russians. Eventually released, he became a postwar Luftwaffe general. His record of 352 kills will probably never be equaled.
 
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Ivan the Butcher said:
Alvin York with the mountain folk, was pretty much my first Hero! More for his work with Hill People during WWII Than his exploits from WWI!

Because of his constant pushing, around 9 battalions of men who couldn't read, got the education they needed and became members of the Army, and the qualified for the GI bill after the war, giving them and their families a step out of the poverty that controlled their lives!

Ivan
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Wow, that is a fantastic story about Alvin York. "Sgt. York" is one of my favorite movies, and my grandfather served at the Argonne Forest as a sniper, so I think about how maybe PawPaw met Alvin York. Thank you for telling that story.
 
My Mom. She was a single mom (not through any fault of hers) long before that term was even heard of. Raised 6 kids by herself until the state finally stepped in and helped. She passed from pancreatic cancer at 84, 6 weeks before 9/11.

MY foster Parents and their son for taking me on. Now that's courage. I was 12 when I went into a foster home. They were good people and never complained about my bad behavior. It's due to them I turned out ok and have had a very successful life.
 
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Too many to name.

One who stands out is Charlemagne (Charles the Great) who stopped the Saracen invasion of Western Europe. I think they need him now!

Lord Dowding, hero of the Battle of Britain.

So many more...
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He was a chip off the block from his grandfather Charles Martel.
 
Going into history.......

....I could pull out a lot of great names, but someone I personally knew was Stan Hall, who was a real live Forest Gump, but a whole lot smarter. He was in the Navy well before Pearl Harbor and happened to be in places where whatever was happening was happening. He was in the medical core at Lakehurst when the Hindenburg landed with an injured crewman. Stan fixed him up and the Captain asked if he would go for a ride when they made the circuit of the northeast.

Before I knew him,one Memorial Day at church a photo was being passed around of a flag on top of a hill. I said, "That's Mount Suribachi". He said yeah, he took that picture when when he was there. He related some stories and suddenly I realized that I had read about what he was telling. He was driving a Jeep with medical supplies down the beach when he heard an incoming round. He jumped into the water and got under an overturned landing craft. The Jeep was junk. There' plenty more to tell there.

I could go on about this but Stan the Man was a personal hero that I actually knew. He was a photographer and always had his camera with him, so he had pictures to go along with his many stories.

Oh, not to forget my friend Bill Polzin, who was on the submarine Cochina when it sunk off Norway. He gave me a VIVID account of everything that happened.

I reserve a spot here for those that gave their lives that we will never know.
 
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The real life Frank Hamer


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I looked up to my older brother, he was a lot like Hamer....

Bill never duck'd his head or backed up from anyone.


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