Who's your hero?

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#32 18-12-2007 11:58PM

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I would like to think of my parents as heroes, especially my Mum, she's been through alot in the last 10 years and no matter how crappy she feels she' always gets on with things etc.

I also think my boyfriends pretty amazing, he's just a person everyone seems to love and.. i dunno he's amazing to me! even before we were going out!

I can't think of anyone else really

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#33 18-12-2007 11:59PM

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#34 19-12-2007 12:01AM

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#35 19-12-2007 12:03AM

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#36 19-12-2007 12:10AM

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My hero's, well I'd include one of my Judo coaches in that 'John Douglas' from the Daigokan Judo club in Dublin.

Other than that, probably Moshe Dayan.

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#37 19-12-2007 12:13AM

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#38 19-12-2007 12:27AM

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Many of the real heros can't be named by the general public.

All the people working to try and free some of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world for example, or those trying to put the pieces back together after the genocide in Rwanda or the civil war in the Congo.

People delivering aid to war zones in Darfur.

Lots of heroes in this world.

I think to be a proper hero by definition, you have to have faced physical risk to achieve your goal? Or is that my imagination?

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#39 19-12-2007 12:34AM

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1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field: the heroes of medicine. See Synonyms at celebrity.
4. The principal male character in a novel, poem, or dramatic presentation.
5. Chiefly New York City See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.

Not too sure about Number 5...

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#40 19-12-2007 12:39AM

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My mam. Since my grandad died 10 years ago, she visited my gran every single day. She readily gave up her job to take full time care of my her, who suffered from Alzheimer's and lung cancer for the last 2years. She cared for her for nearly 2 years up until the point she couldn't provide the level of care gran needed, and was moved to a nursing home. Even after Gran went into the nursing home, and although Gran had no idea who she was anymore, mam visited everyday up until Gran died 2 weeks ago in the Galway Hospice.
My mam is just such a kind and caring person. If I take after her in just some ways I'm very very lucky.

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#41 19-12-2007 12:41AM

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MrJoeSoap wrote: »

1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field: the heroes of medicine. See Synonyms at celebrity.
4. The principal male character in a novel, poem, or dramatic presentation.
5. Chiefly New York City See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.

You forgot 6. 'a tasty sandwich'.

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#42 19-12-2007 12:46AM

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The Queen wrote: »

My mam. Since my grandad died 10 years ago, she visited my gran every single day. She readily gave up her job to take full time care of my her, who suffered from Alzheimer's and lung cancer for the last 2years. She cared for her for nearly 2 years up until the point she couldn't provide the level of care gran needed, and was moved to a nursing home. Even after Gran went into the nursing home, and although Gran had no idea who she was anymore, mam visited everyday up until Gran died 2 weeks ago in the Galway Hospice.
My mam is just such a kind and caring person. If I take after her in just some ways I'm very very lucky.

Mother's are the best. I hold my own mother in the same light if truth be told.

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#43 19-12-2007 12:49AM

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tallaght01 wrote: »

Many of the real heros can't be named by the general public.

All the people working to try and free some of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world for example, or those trying to put the pieces back together after the genocide in Rwanda or the civil war in the Congo.

People delivering aid to war zones in Darfur.

Lots of heroes in this world.

I think to be a proper hero by definition, you have to have faced physical risk to achieve your goal? Or is that my imagination?

I'm not sure I'd consider those people hero's, but if their your's then thats good. I also don't think you should have had to face physical danger to be a hero.

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#44 19-12-2007 12:57AM

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Mairt wrote: »

I'm not sure I'd consider those people hero's, but if their your's then thats good. I also don't think you should have had to face physical danger to be a hero.

why are they not heroes?

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#45 19-12-2007 12:59AM

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tallaght01 wrote: »

why are they not heroes?

Just my opinion thats all. I just seen them as people who do a different job than the 9-5'er.

An admirable job, but not hero's.

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#46 19-12-2007 01:05AM

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Mairt wrote: »

Just my opinion thats all. I just seen them as people who do a different job than the 9-5'er.

An admirable job, but not hero's.

Well, it's your opinion I guess.

I think you could say the same about a guy who teaches judo, though.

I think guys who work in the developing world take big personal risks, and make huge personal sacrifices in order to do good, and usually for very little reward.

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#47 19-12-2007 01:06AM

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#48 19-12-2007 01:09AM

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#49 19-12-2007 01:16AM

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tallaght01 wrote: »

Well, it's your opinion I guess.

I think you could say the same about a guy who teaches judo, though.

I think guys who work in the developing world take big personal risks, and make huge personal sacrifices in order to do good, and usually for very little reward.

I think included in the people you are talking about are individual hero's, but as a whole I don't think the organisation makes hero's out of all the people.

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#50 19-12-2007 01:20AM

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Mairt wrote: »

I think included in the people you are talking about are individual hero's, but as a whole I don't think the organisation makes hero's out of all the people.

I think people who face the danger they do, for the reasons they do, and for the rewards they get are heroes.

But everyone does, of course, have the right, to disagree.

It also very much depends on how you define heroe. It's obvious that most of us have differing criteria, hence the wide variety of answers.

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#51 19-12-2007 01:29AM

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Hulk Hogan, what an entertainer...what a man...what a hero!

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#52 19-12-2007 01:32AM

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#53 19-12-2007 01:38AM

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Ehm... for a long time I said Mick Foley, cause he ended up being at the top of something he always loved and respected, but other than that hard to say. Other than the parents, raising two of us through some rotten hard times, as well as the bro having learning difficulities and epilepsy. Nothing worth doing is easy they say sure.

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#54 19-12-2007 01:53AM

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#55 19-12-2007 02:03AM

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I'm on boards just over a year but this thread has been done to death

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#56 19-12-2007 02:04AM

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#57 19-12-2007 02:07AM

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Oh btw Roy Keane is a traitorous cúnt.

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#58 19-12-2007 02:19AM

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#59 19-12-2007 02:32AM

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Pigman II wrote: »

Oh btw Roy Keane is a traitorous cúnt.

Sure is, who the hell does he think he is...hmmm, with his stable marriage, 5 kids, donations to charity and consistently having the balls to say what everyone is thinking when no one else will..

Get a fcukin grip man

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#60 19-12-2007 02:42AM

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#61 19-12-2007 02:44AM

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obl obviously. He done deleted his there bebo.

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