Jim Thorpe and Tommy Prince made it somewhere in there far behind Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandella. Pierre Eliot Trudeau and Lester Pearson made the list. Vine Deloria Jr. made it. Guess we all have our own notions of what makes a hero. My own personal heroes are paramedics, police officers and firefighters who put in on the line everyday to help others - with damn little recognition, financial or otherwise, of their heroism.
Teachers are more heroes scarcely recognized in modern day society s hustle and bustle.
Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise Second Generation have to be up there among the greatest. If a heaven exist I hope there will be room for this gallant crew of explorers and idealists - and human actors. They are absolutely awesome. Check out a few shows and find out for yourself. Biggest loss of the 20th century has to be my own inability to find God.