QOTD: Who is your hero?

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,806
edited January 2010 in The Clubhouse
We all have them. Someone that we look up to and admire the most. Doesn't have to be a family member. It could be a celebrity or a president or a sports star or a general in the army or a religious figure. We all have someone we look up to and view as a person better than ourselves that we strive to model our lives after.

So who's your hero?



Me? Well I got a bunch of stuff going on this morning and I wanted to get this posted before I forgot so I'll have to give my answer later when I have more time.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited January 2010
    Oskar Schindler for one.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited January 2010
    Ronald Reagan and Harold Bixby...

    The first is obvious, the latter was a friend of mine the helped get the first Americans into space and eventually to the Moon. He was a key designer of egress and recovery(parachutes and the protechnics that deployed them) aparatus for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
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  • potee
    potee Posts: 610
    edited January 2010
    Col. Leroy Stutz He was a 6 year POW. I worked for him at McDill AFB. for 4 years. A real hero and a real human being. He's retired and living in Ok. My true life hero
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2010
    The OP.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,999
    edited January 2010
    My dad!
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited January 2010
    My neighbor he moved in about 10 years ago. At that time I was 11 and just sort of wondered over there and never went home as they joke. Anyway I would go over and still go over just about every weekend and hang out and talk. I learned a ton from him from ohms to electronics and how they operate. He is a very cool laid back guy. When I was younger he would explain things to me but it was not until I did a audio install for him did he realize that I did not just ask this stuff and not pay attention to the answered. I did listen and did learn. He told me I am like the son he never had as he was not with his as his grew up. Both him and his wife are very cool and I admire how they open up there home to me and how friendly they are.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited January 2010
    Jstas
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited January 2010
    My grandfather, the original George Grand.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2010
    Anyone who stands up against oppression at any level. Be that a school yard bully, a crappy boss, a military regime, or a terrorist on a plane. Those who stand up against these kind of people are my heroes.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited January 2010
    You are John.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    bigaudiofanatic wrote: »
    ...At that time I was 11 and just sort of wondered over there...

    Really? What were you wondering about?

    I believe you intended to use the word wandered because no definition of the word wondered fits the context of your statement.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    Why am I anybody's hero?

    If I'm your hero, you need to get out more or find a hobby or something. 'Cause that's sad.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited January 2010
    My dad. I've never seena man give up so much for his family in my entire life. We never had much money, but I'd never have known it.

    He went into the AF in 68, and ended up serving 22 years, including 2 SE Asia tours, so I respect that as well.

    What I respect the most though is who he is as a person. He's the kind of guy that spent hours a couple of years ago in the local wal mart parking lot working on some guy he'd never met before's car, b/c the guy was broke and down on his luck. Dad did it because it was right, even if it meant him literally working in the freezing cold on some stranger's car for free. He does things because they are what is right and what should be done. He is the definition of a man, and my hero.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited January 2010
    My Mom.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited January 2010
    My Dad! THE All American Dad! 6 years in the Navy during the Korean war, flew 44 missions before being shot down. 30 years in the Coast Guard. I only wish I was half the man he is.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited January 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Why am I anybody's hero?

    If I'm your hero, you need to get out more or find a hobby or something. 'Cause that's sad.


    You are my hero to bro:rolleyes:...

    and we do have a hobby called the persuit of auditory bliss.
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  • NJPOLKER
    NJPOLKER Posts: 3,474
    edited January 2010
    My father without question. He was also my best man at my wedding.
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  • domflane
    domflane Posts: 653
    edited January 2010
    My hero is Buddy Loftin, search "Oh my god he gots a knife" on youtube.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    Why am I anybody's hero?

    If I'm your hero, you need to get out more or find a hobby or something. 'Cause that's sad.

    You're my hero because you've made it into your 30's without even a hint of a sense of humor.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    You're my hero because you've made it into your 30's without even a hint of a sense of humor.

    I have a sense of humor. It just usually involves the pain/misfortune/demise of others. Like when some stupid kid on a skateboard falls of a rail and lands on his jibbly bits. THAT'S comedy!

    Except zombie boy 2000, he makes me laugh.

    And doro. He makes me want to swing puppies by their feet wildly at baby harp seals and shake my fist menacingly at lollipops stolen from babies.


    See? I'm a ray of freakin' sunshine in your miserable existence! But I still don't see how that makes me a hero.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    You are my hero to bro:rolleyes:...

    and we do have a hobby called the persuit of auditory bliss.

    First, you should take some spelling lessons. Or English lessons. Or maybe just use a freaking spell checker.

    Second, you should go find some traffic to play in.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited January 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    First, you should take some spelling lessons. Or English lessons. Or maybe just use a freaking spell checker.

    Second, you should go find some traffic to play in.


    No to the first just because it irritates you:p, and to your second point, I would rather listen to my music and enjoy your inept potshots at me...now THOSE are funny!:D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    Inept? Wha? If I was actually intending to take potshots, which are usually random, incidental and unprovoked, I could understand. But since I don't take potshots at you your statement doesn't make any sense. But you seem to think my world revolves around you, and you take offense to any word I say with the intention of provoking me whether my words had anything to do with you or not. You send me PM's asking me to be your buddy. You even send me PM's with your phone number in them begging me to call you! Why? I dunno. I guess you think you can win me over? I already told you that's not going to happen and your arrogance about it just fuels my disdain for you. I should have saved that one and dumped it on every "free" spammer and junk-mailer I could find. Needless to say, I don't think that word means what you really think it means.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited January 2010
    Well was going to reply, but this thread pretty much went to ****....
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited January 2010
    I did send you my number, but said nothing about wanting to be your buddy. I only assumed that by actually talking that perhaps some of the bs that goes back and forth could be addressed and that would be that. To me, it is called taking an adult approach to solving a disagreement. I have no issue with you personally as we have never met or spoken before. This is just the internet and words typed here are just that... words. If you choose to be a keyboard commando without a sense of humor and choose to take everything said here seriously , that ones on you. I tried the nice way and now the ignore button will come in handy.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    Lorthos wrote: »
    Well was going to reply, but this thread pretty much went to ****....

    Yeah, I know.

    See what I get?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I did send you my number, but said nothing about wanting to be your buddy. I only assumed that by actually talking that perhaps some of the bs that goes back and forth could be addressed and that would be that. To me, it is called taking an adult approach to solving a disagreement. I have no issue with you personally as we have never met or spoken before. This is just the internet and words typed here are just that... words. If you choose to be a keyboard commando without a sense of humor and choose to take everything said here seriously , that ones on you. I tried the nice way and now the ignore button will come in handy.

    I have been an adult about it. I told you I don't like you and to leave me the hell alone. But like some crybaby desperate for attention of any kind, you still have a need to single me out. I'm not the only one who doesn't like you. But to spare them of the crap I have to deal with from you I'll refrain from dropping names.

    So, I will again tell you to leave me alone. Keep your distance from me because I don't go out of my way to get on your case. So stop dumping on this thread, douchenozzle and take your BS to PM where I can more effectively ignore you. nobody, including me, wants to deal with your crap.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited January 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    I have been an adult about it. I told you I don't like you and to leave me the hell alone. But like some crybaby desperate for attention of any kind, you still have a need to single me out. I'm not the only one who doesn't like you. But to spare them of the crap I have to deal with from you I'll refrain from dropping names.

    So, I will again tell you to leave me alone. Keep your distance from me because I don't go out of my way to get on your case. So stop dumping on this thread, douchenozzle and take your BS to PM where I can more effectively ignore you. nobody, including me, wants to deal with your crap.
    The only whining I see comes from you and then the name-calling... Very adult. Do not waste your considerable Ninja skills further in reply as I will not be able to read them.
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  • NJPOLKER
    NJPOLKER Posts: 3,474
    edited January 2010
    I think Jstas is a New Jersey **** head :D Do you hate me too :eek::D:rolleyes:
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2010
    NJPOLKER wrote: »
    I think Jstas is a New Jersey **** head :D Do you hate me too :eek::D:rolleyes:

    Takes one to know one, dingleshot.

    Are you going to send me your phone number and tell me we can work it out now? Or should I just travel to your neck of the woods for a rochambeau tourney?
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