Your Heroes Created 19 years ago2005-04-05 10:33:21 UTC by Mephs

If you had the chance to meet one person alive or dead who would it be and why?

I'm hoping this thread will be interesting, rather than 'wacky' and 'outrageous'.

For me, it would have to be the comedian-cum-philosopher Bill Hicks. He might not have changed the world, but he could make you laugh and think at the same time about political issues, and I feel getting people to think for themselves is more important than changing them through laws, dogmas etc.

Meeting Karl Marx might be interesting, heh.

I'd like 2 meed the G-Man and Gordon Freeman...

Mmm, I'd probably have to say Paula Radcliffe or someone, me being the running fanatic that I am.

Other than that, I'd of loved to of met Douglas Adams.

And Yarg, and Kurt Cobain! How'd I forget that!?

Mmm, I'd probably have to say Paula Radcliffe or someone, me being the running fanatic that I am.

Nah, she she'd go to shake you hand and move her arm about half way then just break into floods of tears "...i...just...can't...do it...I can't go any further" etc.

What about this guy for a true hero? He's better than Gordon Freeman!

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The Los Angeles Times
April 5, 2005

The Highest Honor for a Fallen Soldier: He had written that he would 'give all that I am to ensure that all my boys make it home.'

By Elise Castelli, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON ? Two years to the day after Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith was killed defending his unit from an enemy attack near the Baghdad airport, President Bush on Monday presented his family the first Medal of Honor awarded in more than a decade.

In a tear-filled White House ceremony, Bush handed Smith's 11-year-old son, David, the nation's highest award for valor in combat.

"Scripture tells us ? that a man has no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. And that is exactly the responsibility Paul Smith believed the sergeant's stripes on his sleeve had given him," Bush told an audience that included Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. "In a letter he wrote to his parents but never mailed, he said that he was prepared to 'give all that I am to ensure that all my boys make it home.' "

On April 4, 2003 ? barely two weeks after the Iraq war began and five days before Baghdad fell ? the 3rd Infantry Division captured the capital's airport. Smith, 33, who had served in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, in Bosnia and in Kosovo, was assigned to turn a courtyard near the airport into a temporary holding pen for Iraqi prisoners.

But as his unit of the 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division advanced, it was attacked by more than 100 members of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard.

Outnumbered and out in the open, Smith climbed aboard an armored personnel carrier and began shooting a .50-caliber machine gun, firing more than 300 rounds of ammunition. He held off the attack, killing nearly 50 Republican Guard soldiers before being mortally wounded by Iraqi fire.

"Sgt. Smith's leadership saved the men in the courtyard, and he prevented an enemy attack on the aid station just up the road," Bush said. "We thank his family for the father, the husband, and son and brother who can never be replaced."

In his remarks, the president recalled a young man who, after graduating from high school in Tampa, Fla., joined the Army in 1989 and received "extra duty ? scrubbing floors" for high jinks with friends. But that soldier became a "devoted family man who played T-ball with his son and taught his daughter how to change the oil in his Jeep Cherokee."

Smith's wife, Birgit, whom he met in 1990 while stationed in Germany, clutched the left hand of her 18-year-old daughter, Jessica, and wept as the president handed the framed medal, with its signature blue ribbon with 13 stars, to her son.

"Every one of our soldiers deserves the title of a hero," Birgit Smith, who lives in Holiday, Fla., said after the ceremony. "To truly honor Paul, we must honor all the soldiers and the work and sacrifice they do on a daily basis in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world."

The last combat action for which Medals of Honor were awarded was in Somalia. Two were given to Army sergeants killed in the October 1993 "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu.

Recommendations for the Medal of Honor take at least 18 months to investigate. Including the award to Smith, 3,460 Medals of Honor have been presented since the award was established in 1861.

Yea, I'd like to meet 'em, but also the members of the band "METALLICA"

If seriously - then I'd like 2 meet some1 like Jacko and kick him in the balls!
Also I'd like to meet Hitler and maybe Carmen Electra....

Oh oh! Almost forgot! I'd also like to meet Frank Zappa...

I'd like to meet Jennifer Gardnier.. Ooooohh Yeeeaaa

I agree with Mephs, Bill Hicks.

I would like to meet Alex Jones, or atleast speak to him on the Infowars radio show. Maybe I will one day.

David Icke would be the next one I'd like to see.

Following guys arent my heroes.. I just want to meet them:
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao - I just want to know are they really crazy or what.
Einstein - Genious.
Takashi Miike - Best asian-director.. ever.
Some political figures like George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin
Of course there's lots of bands that i'd like to meet..

I guess not all Americans are that bad, then, satchmo.

In fact, beats the Pope:

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Yea, I'd like to meet those crazy dictators too...
But am I the only one who wants to kick jacko???

I want to meet the members of Linkin Park, Zhang Ziyi, Jacki Chan. Cmon people it's Jacki Chan! Greg Vederman, Carmen Electra, and it would be awaesome to see some of you guys in person.

Keira Knightley...preferably in bed...without clothes of any sort

Yao Ming !!!! Big guy from china : Height: 7-6 / 2,29
and the gman look-a-like !

Hitler, King of England and Michael J

If i met Hitler, he would get kicked in the nuts...

ANYWAYS!

I would wanna meet JFK.

why does everyone wanna meet hitler? that guy was a madman and a filthy chest pooper.

*smiles while imagining the sound of an aluminum bat against hitlers skull

anyways i would want to meet Jesus. (he was a real person even if u dont believe he was the son of God)

Yep, I'd love to meet Jesus. I'd also love to kick Hitler in the balls.

That's awesome Satchmo.

Even though I really don't condone wars or violence, the basic fact that he used his own life to save others is great.

I'd kick jesus in the balls. Take that, you bloody samarite, kind motherfucker!

Man ZL, you got issues :

wow Zl... I hope that was a joke...

I would want to meet Jesus, but, I believe that he is always there anyway.

So... I would really like to talk to Albert Einstein for a few hours.

Obviously you know why...

Cmon people it's Jacki Chan!

'cmon people! It's Jackie Chan!

Don't you guys know, Zombieloffe isn't a religious guy.

All religions should be removed. Really.

People should be allowed to believe in what they want.

Though..

All religions should be removed. Really.

..That would be good imo. People take religions way too serious.

Kick jesus in the balls??? Zombieloffe... You'll burn in hell for this... imagines how zombieloffe screams while being burned in a furnance

Yeah Loffe, stop saying what you want to say or you'll burn in hell forever... That's so.. Christian

Awaits flamage

Kirsten Dunst

People should be allowed to believe in what they want.

Yeah, But look the world. It isnt very nice place. As you said.. people take religions way too seriously. And that isnt the only problem.. People got some very weird "versions" of their religions "mainbook", example. Koran.

Yeah, and Catholicism isn't weird. Like eating the body of Christ? That's frigging cannibalism.

I am not against any religion, but I hate even more when someone picks out a religion and attacks it.

I'm against all religions. There, that's equality.

Whatever... I'm still proudly christian... :
Hey, maybe I should put this on my avatar?

They all are stupid.

Atheist will rise.

Whatever... I'm still proudly christian...
Hey, maybe I should put this on my avatar?

i will if u will

you guys need to get real.. this forum is wacked now!
people say jesus, then other people say religion. two completely different things
"They all are stupid.
Atheist will rise."
yeah, sure, with an attitude like that they sure will

Only if we cook them with self-raising flour.

I'm hoping this thread will be interesting, rather than 'wacky' and 'outrageous'.

Precisely. Now stop discussing religion and ask the forum moderators to include a 'Serious Conversation' forum. That'd be good.

Acording to some theories of the nature of Earth-life and human origins we are from the stars. I'd really REALLY like to meet the guys, who planted Earth with life.

Hitler, maybe not really, but it'll be interesting to know what's behind his moustache (not in the direct meaning, ofcourse). Friedrich Nitzshe (not sure how it's spelled) is to be more resourcefull meeting (father of the nazi idealism) and Karl Marx too. Maybe we can make a three way conference and see how each ideologist would react.

Its sad that so few people actually have heroes, yet everyone it seems has a long list of people they'd like to assault, though. I suppose having someone you idolise isn't 'hip, daddy-o', but at least it shows the people who have given thought to how they want to live their life. I wish people would get over generation-x already!

I can't say I have a hero. Why can't people be good without having to copy someone else, though, exactly? I'm sure there're lots of people who I would respect greatly ? who aren't famous. In fact, maybe that's a prequesite, not being famous. I hope that made sense.

My personal opinion is that, while we all rant about stuff (bush, war) etc, we haven't experienced anything. ALL of our ideas are stolen, from what TV says, parents or your friends, if you at least examine the life of someone whom you think rocked then you can see what they did in YOUR position (for example Bill Hicks always poured his heart out like me, and never held back; IRC people) but he lived his life well and it was cut short (in a trip years before he thought he had an inverted cross on the aflicting region).

You don't NEED a hero, you can live life the way you want to. I just feel that having some kind of reference is good. This isn't the most mature forum (I don't mean that in a nasty way) but if you try to make you way in REAL life, you'll find lots if crossroads. It's nice to have someone who has tread the same path, and somehow suceeded. If only in a small way.

I relate to my hero, and yes, I do ask myself at time "what would Bill Hicks do?". You might not do it, but its reassuring that someone who thinks the same way you do has walked before you.

Well said Mephs.

Allright, yer turn, J3r3my...

Isn't our behaviour entirely dictated by what we have experienced, though, Mephs?

got it Daubster

Kick jesus in the balls??? Zombieloffe... You'll burn in hell for this... imagines how zombieloffe screams while being burned in a furnance

Oh no, "satan" will send me to "hell" in the "afterlife" cause I said bad things about "jesus", who's the son of "god".

It's all lies.