And so he lives on forever. How many heroes from centuries past can you name? Damn few, offhand. He’s one. That’s something.
“..How many heroes from centuries past can you name?...”
Mine, personally:
Davey Crockett
Daniel Boone
Daniel Webster
Sam Adams
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Captain John Parker and every single militiaman who stood tall at Lexington
Stephen Decatur
Doctor Joseph Warren
Paul Revere
Merriwether Lewis and William Clarke
Andrew Jackson
George Custer
Thomas Edison
Doc Jonas Salk
John Moses Browning
Samuel Colt
Teddy Roosevelt
General John Pershing
Alvin S. York
Eddie Rickenbacker
Frank Luke
Raoul Lufbery
George S. Patton
Omar Bradley
Dorrie Miller at Pearl Harbor
Eric Fisher Woods jr
John Basilone on the ‘Canal, and Iwo
Cpl Johnny Spillane at Tarawa
Chesty Puller
Matthew Ridgeway
James Gavin
Douglas MacArthur
Colonel Doolittle
Colonel Tibbets
Frances Gabby Gabreski
Ronald Reagan
My Marine uncles, and my Airborne Dad...
I have more. These are American heroes.
These are the people I grew up admiring and wanted to be like. Americans who were thoroughly American through and through - they lived it, loved it, bled, cried, and died for it. With all of their successes, failures, faults, and strengths, they lived their lives and did what they did because they were Americans first and foremost, and put country and people before self.
Yeah...I can name a few...these are my people, people with heart and spirit that this Country produced, and I love all of them as Americans, as brothers, and as my Countrymen.
And maybe if we all take a moment out here on FR, each day to present the individual story of people like these gentlemen, we just pick an American HERO and post his or her story...
...well, maybe then we’ll be doing a little bit more to help KEEP that legacy alive.