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Post by sween on Jan 9, 2014 18:08:48 GMT
Heroes. Think the term is overused, especially when it comes to things like football fans "watching their heroes on the pitch". Also don't really consider the armed forces as heroes unlike many. While I'm massively grateful for the job they do, the difference is they choose to earn a living with a full knowledge of the dangers their job poses. I'm on about the every day people who go above and beyond the call of duty to help their fellow man. Like Aitaz Hasan, the 15 year old Pakistani boy who sacrificed his life to stop a suicide bomber and save countless others. The fact someone can be so selfless as to accept a death sentence like that practically on instinct just blows my mind. Discuss any other real heroes here.
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Kesh
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Post by Kesh on Jan 9, 2014 18:26:15 GMT
Just read this now. It's fucking mental, some people are just built to be heroes.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Jan 9, 2014 19:10:03 GMT
Insane how someone could just sacrifice themselves for others like that seemingly without even thinking about it as well.
My view of the armed forces has been tainted so much through people I know and the way I've seen them act when they're out. I'm sure most of them are good people but I've seen too many idiots now, just glorified thugs. Frustrates me how it's seen as such a noble profession despite the fact that a lot of them just get into it now because they're too fucking braindead to do anything else.
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Post by The Quito Diet on Jan 9, 2014 19:17:59 GMT
Yeah people on Facebook who describe their job title as ''FULL TIME MUMMY'' and have the middle name ''MUMTOTYLABROXANDSAMMYLOO'' have pretty much eroded my positive view of the role modern soldiers undertake.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 21:08:33 GMT
#FreeBTS's nailed it. I think the idea that soldiers aren't heroes has been tainted by the fact that whereas during the first and second world wars, although there were a large number of common men in the ranks it was always a gentleman's job to be a solider- especially in the First, nowadays soldiers are uneducated twunts for the most part. Maybe as a society we're hard on them considering they are just letting off all the steam that is beaten out of them in training etc but still, they've no need to take it upon themselves to embody everything that is wrong with a "lad". There have been countless like him, but for me Maximilian Kolbe is a huge "hero", and to many others no doubt. First real story of that ilk that I'd heard back in school and it moved me a fair bit.
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Post by Exonerator on Jan 9, 2014 22:08:14 GMT
Sir Nicholas Winton. He saved the lives of hundreds of Jews in the Second World War. Doesn't quite get the recognition Schindler did, mind, but he bloody deserves some.
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Post by you give me rrrroad rrrrage on Jan 9, 2014 22:26:56 GMT
Hero?
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Cashis
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Post by Cashis on Jan 9, 2014 23:07:23 GMT
Narstie is a god among men
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Post by Maestro on Jan 10, 2014 0:36:26 GMT
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Post by Heung-Min Pleat on Jan 10, 2014 13:40:17 GMT
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Post by Gianni Infantino on Jan 10, 2014 13:52:53 GMT
Schindler, and anyone who did their best to lower the statistics during the Holocaust, is a hero in my eyes.
Could say in some sense the passengers on Flight 93 on the morning of 9/11 were. They saved the lives of not only the president of their country but whoever was in the Capitol at that time.
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Post by Star of Spurs on Jan 10, 2014 13:56:31 GMT
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Post by sween on Jan 10, 2014 19:07:39 GMT
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Post by notpropaganda on Jan 11, 2014 0:24:18 GMT
My sister quit her 60k a year job to look after our great-uncle with Alzheimers for 2 years because she didn't want him to go to a nursing home and none of his sisters or immediate nieces/nephews were willing or able to take him in. So she quit her job, left Dublin to go to the backarae of nowhere in Donegal to look after a wonderful old man who couldn't remember who she was on a daily basis, washing him, cooking for him and having the patience to answer the same questions over and over.
She's a hero in my eyes.
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Post by sween on Jan 11, 2014 0:26:09 GMT
agreed
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