[Patriot Babe]

Exactly, here is a man whose mother abdandon him and I think his father walked away. Steve raised himself up and I believe he got right when he joined the military. Yes Steve was not in the Hollywood Crap of glitter - “Look at me! Am I just beautiful”. He rather be with his kids and enjoy racing cars and riding his bike out in the openess. There will never be another Steve. Yep Steve was the King of Cool.
That is what I so happy to hear that he gave his life to Christ about a few months before he died. A friend invited him to Church. I was elated to hear that on the day he died. The nurse came in to check up on him and he was laying there with his eyes closed. She thought he was sleeping so she tried to wake him up to no avail. The nurse stated that Steve has a slight smile to his face with his eyes closed and he was clutching the bible up to his chest and was opened to Psalm 23:4:

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

For the nurse to find him like that say alot he felt it was his last day and like you said he is now in Heaven with the Lord probably riding his golden bike =)

Steve Mc Queen riding a Honda CR250M Elsinore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXyVp7iw10Q

A litte side note: Steve was a Republican

[WomBom]

He used to visit orphanages and donate to the kids... all under the radar.

Class act. He was a pilot as well as a race car driver

[atc23]

Thanks for posting that - I thought I knew everything about him

[elcid1970]

I always admired Steve McQueen which I cannot say except for a handful of actors.

I admire him now much more for knowing of his acceptance of Jesus as his Savior and the manner of his death, the happy death that Christians are promised.

It is inspiration that helps me prepare for my own.

[jodyel]

Did not know this.

Very cool.

[Finny]

What's almost as good is that even before he became a professed Christian, McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive, was solidly, almost overtly, promoting Christian values of honesty, compassion, respect for life, humility, and even chastity! After watching WDOA, and then learning that McQueen did this at the end of his life, wasn't so surprising. He'd been living and promoting Christian values in his life. All the way down to giving alms in secret -- it wasn't until after he died, I think, that folks found out that all those Levis and razors and such that he insisted on getting for himself as extras for doing a film (like a celebrity insising on all red and yellow M&Ms in hotel room), went to Boys Republic, the reform school that helped McQueen as a young man.

Even Bulliit was about being gutsy, compassionate, honorable guy, not so much with regard to chastity (!!), but I watch that move several times a year and love it every time. It is a fabulous movie.