Former First Lady Mrs. Gerald (Betty) Ford. I'm 20 years sober because of her encouragement.

anybody who has overcome any of life's problems without causing one to or for somebody else !

Teachers. Fireman. Policeman and the Serviceman.

Right now, Nimbin is a hero because he was positive and retained his sense of humour and composure during a very difficult period prior to his surgery. He has my admiration and respect.....good onya, Nimbin, and more power to ya.

ditto well said

After reading some of these I have to ammend my John Lennon post to include MY wife also..She has stuck with me through thick and thin, worked her ass off, supported me as I have travelled the long lonely road to skinning fame and riches and while I haven't reached my ultimate goals yet I do want to say I appreciate everything she has done for me over the past 5-6 years and hope she will bear with me just a little while longer. We have been married 16 years.   

my heroes are the various people that i chat with daily. whether it be here on Wincustomize, or thru my hundreds of text messages, or even thru MySpace, these folks are all great! also my 2 cousins that are serving over in Iraq right now.

My hero is Jesus Christ. He has done more for me, than anyone else possibly could.
He has taken away my sins and made my life so wonderful and happy. He sacrificed everything he had for me.


Very well Said......I agree...

All wives are heroes (or should be) because we inconsiderate men can/and do belch & fart at the most embarrassing times; because we leave our dirty sock where-ever....they're found only when they walk out by themselves from under the bed/sofa; because we're not always good in bed....ie, we snore too loudly and take up more than our fair share of the blankets/bed; because we'll sit in front of the TV with remote in hand and ask: "Oh while you're there honey, get me another beer."......and because we always/too often leave the toilet seat up.

Of course, mrs starkers isn't a hero for any of these reasons cos I try to be ever so considerate regarding the toilet seat, I stay on my own side of the bed, gave up drinking and my feet don't stink.

****Orright, so I snore...and the curried cabbage still has THAT gaseous affect*****

It's NOT just the curried cabbage, what about all that muesli hmmmmmmmm........with a bit more practice you will shit yourself

Now-A-Days it's what LanTec said. Comment 25. That's cause that's the way it is. ALSO I liked IR Comment #5 cause Harryhausen made such great music and I love music. His music could make a so so movie great!

Good parents and kids are always Heros!

For me,being Australian its the Anzacs.i always wanted to be like them.
they did their job and did it well

And i don`t have a wife or children
But my mum and dad do count

Ron Paul. A member of Congress not only with his own principles, but one of the few (the only?) with principles that are in line with the Founding Fathers.

I'm going to take a bad hit from alot of people on this, but here goes......Christopher Hitchens, Friedrich Nietzsche, and.......a personal God.

Grand Raspberries To All And To All A Good Night !

Four more heroes for me.....the three surviving members of Spinal Tap - and for the drummer who instantaneously combusted while blowing his nose, a posthumous heroism award for services above and beyond the call of duty whilst perched beside those enormous amps that are louder cos they go all the way to eleven.

Fuzzy has summed it up well for me, Sadly the world is a place with too many suffering and not enough heroes

thanks Fuzzy

Me, since there’s hardly anybody in this country I can look up to.

wo......i dont know that he has ever taken down any Skinhits...Smedley has gotten served on more than one occasion....


OK, so to answer the question....My hero would be my mother! She managed to raise my brother and I(and raise us well I might add) as a single parent, kept her sanity, and loved us unconditionally... I truly saw "heroism" in her...And would be lucky to be half the parent she is!

I raised my son & daughter as a single parent - seems I did an ok job cos they turned out great - but they'd have to be the heroes in this case....for surviving me. I just wasn't cut out/born to be a single mother (wrong gender), but warts n' all I saw that they got what they needed....if not all they ever wanted.

Starkers just became one of my heroes!

I made a thread like this years ago..so i will share my story here too...


My story begins in 2004. My mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was given between 1 week to a year to live. When we heard the news, my wife, while juggleing a part time job and 4 kids, took every spare moment to care for mom and see to her every need.

I would go to work at 6:00AM and she would be up with me getting the kids breakfast and off to school. Then drive over to mom's house and take her to radiation therapy, do whatever shopping mom needed done (the cancer was in her brain so mom could no longer drive) and help mom with various chores around the house. She would then get home just in time *1:45PM* to greet my daughter as she climbed off the school bus. While waiting for the other kids to get home, she would clean the house and get ready to cook dinner.(she would cook extra and take it to mom). when i got home at 6:00PM she would be finishing eating as she got ready to head out to work. she would be at work til 11:00PM. and would get to bed at 12:00..this was her daily routine 5 days a week for about 6 mo's, til mom passed..she never once had a complaint , her only concern was making sure mom was happy and felt loved..

This is why she will always be a Hero to me ....


heres the link to my heroes thread..


WWW Link

I could name a dozen people who have been heroes to me... but I'll just name the biggest few....

1. My mother. She was a woman so amazing, you could not even imagine. She was the most selfless person you could ever meet. Not only to me and my sister and 3 brothers, but to everyone. Even perfect strangers. She befriended battered women at a nearby shelter, gave them clothes, gave their kids gifts on Christmas. She was a penpal for 15 years to a man in prison who just needed someone to care. She gave and gave until she had no more to give. Cancer took her from us on Christmas day 2005, and through that battle, she still thought of us, her family. She said just wanted to live past Christmas just so she didn't ruin the holidays for us. She was a hero in every sense of the word. Selfless, caring and a fighter.

2. My dad. You can only imagine what he went through with my mom's illness. They were married 50 years, and were the most loving parents I could have ever hoped for. My dad taught me how to be a man. Not a truck driving, beer drinking, deer hunting kind of man... a real man. A man who loves his wife with everything. A man who's not afraid to cry. A man who puts his God and family first. I'm not ashamed to say, I've become a pretty good husband and father, and it's all because of him.

3. My wife. For all the reasons you would imagine, and also because she's a teacher. They always say you marry your mother, and my wife is alot like my mother. She is selfless almost to her own detriment sometimes. She teaches junior high school, and is a wonderful mother to our 2 sons. And she makes me feel like the most important man in the world everyday.

4. My cousin Jason Sparks. Jason was 19 when he was killed in Iraq in September of 2004. He was in the Army, and had been in Iraq less than a week when he was shot. Jason had just gotten engaged before leaving to basic training. He made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we as Americans take for granted everyday. He traded his life for our safety.