Now look at him back packing across a jungle river, giving his life to a preliterate people barely out of the stone age, painstakingly creating a written alphabet from a previously unrecorded babble of sound. Working night and day translating the pages of the New Testament, exposing the senselessness of superstition and ignorance, relieving the pain and introducing the possibility of health, building a bridge of understanding to a neglected people and to think Jim could have been a success. When they ran that ad they had more young people to sign up than at any other time. They gave kids something to live for and something for which to die for. They gave them a bigger than life hero.
Heroes usually rise from a past generation.
All heroes are real people. Today our heroes are fictional people, cartoon characters. Heroes are people from whom we receive inner strength when we reflect on them. Heroes sometimes are people who spend their whole lives doing something, for which they never enjoy rewards. The people coming behind them will, but they never enjoyed the rewards.