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    Let's start with Sir Nicholas Winton a truly amazing man.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport


    The German tried to swing him with an attractive woman who he actually turned and she ended up escaping to Sweden with Jewish children that's how amazing he really was.
     
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    Chiune Sugihara
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Jr.
     
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    Witold Pilecki
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki


     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ferdinand_Duckwitz

     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides_de_Sousa_Mendes

     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

    His Christian faith drove him to help free the slaves in the British colonies!
     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl

     
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    The people of Denmark
     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Peshev

    There is no black and white only shades of Grey!
     
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    I have lots of heroes, mostly military and explorers. Here is one of them:

    https://purpleheartfoundation.wordp...o-the-untold-story-of-army-capt-ed-w-freeman/
    Vietnam War Hero: The Untold Story of Army Capt. Ed W. Freeman
    ...Capt. Ed W. Freeman was born on November 20, 1927 in Neely, Mississippi and was the sixth of nine children growing up. As a young teenager, Freeman saw thousands of military personnel pass by his small Mississippi hometown. Inspired by their call to duty, Freeman decided to enlist in the Navy at age 17 and served on the USS Cacapon for two years.

    After World War II, Freeman graduated from high school and enlisted in the Army. Not only did he serve in World War II, but Freeman also served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He became a Master Sergeant in the Army Corps of Engineers. Specifically, he fought in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill during the Korean War and was later awarded Battlefield Commission, which gave him the opportunity to apply for flight school.

    Freeman earned the nickname “Too Tall” because his 6’4” height was considered too tall to fly helicopters for the Army. The Army’s height restriction at that time was 6’2”.

    He first flew fixed-wing aircraft and later switched to helicopters, having logged thousands of hours in chopper flight training.

    In 1955, the Army’s height regulations changed to allow Freeman to fly. During the Vietnam War in 1965, Freeman was assigned to the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division.

    Freeman’s life is most remembered for the events that occurred on November 14, 1965. At the time, he was a flight leader and second in command of a 16-helicopter lift unit of the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion with the 1st Cavalry Division.

    [​IMG]The brutal fight on November 14, 1965 was the first major confrontation between the large American and North Vietnamese forces. The fighting was so fierce that medevac units refused to step in and help rescue other soldiers because the battle was too dangerous.

    Freeman’s unit was almost out of ammunition after fighting off the enemy. He risked his own life by flying his unarmed helicopter through a gauntlet of enemy fire. He made 14 rescue mission trips to save roughly 30 wounded soldiers. He also delivered ammunition, water and medical supplies to other engaged units at Landing Zone X-Ray in the la Drang Valley of Vietnam.

    All of Freeman’s flights were made into a small emergency landing zone only a couple of hundred yards away from the defensive perimeter, where other engaged units were holding off enemy fire.

    One of Freeman’s rescued survivors on that day was U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona.

    Freeman’s wingman was Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall during this incredible rescue mission. Collectively, Crandall and Freeman saved 70 soldiers’ lives.

    Freeman was later promoted to the rank of Major, designated as Master Army Aviator, and sent home from Vietnam in 1966. He retired from the Army in 1967. After retirement, he continued to work as a pilot and flew helicopters for another 20 years while serving the U.S. Department of Interior to fight against wildfires, herd wild horses, and conduct animal censuses. Altogether, by the time Freeman retired in 1991, he clocked 22,000 total hours in flying helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

    On July 16, 2001, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by former president George W. Bush. Freeman was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his act of bravery.

    [​IMG]Among his many numerous awards and decorations, Freeman was a Purple Heart recipient. His Army wingman Lt. Col. Crandall is also a Purple Heart recipient.

    The 2002 film We Were Soldiers is based on the 1st Cavalry Division’s battle against the enemy in the La Drang Valley of Vietnam, where Freeman and Crandall rescued soldiers from disaster.

    On August 20, 2008, Freeman passed away from complications of Parkinson’s disease in Boise, Idaho at the age of 80. He was buried with full military honors at Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise, Idaho.

    In March of 2009, Congress passed an amendment to name the U.S. Post Office in Freeman’s hometown of McLain, Mississippi in honor of him, the “Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office”.....


     
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    Thanks this is why I made the thread to introduce people to hereos they didn't know AND others to introduce me to heroes I didn't know.
     
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    The firefighters on 9/11 all of them!
     
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    André and Magda Trocmé

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_and_Magda_Trocmé

    By extension the people of
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chambon-sur-Lignon


    An amazing story.
     
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilm_Hosenfeld

    Black and white is an illusion!
     
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    Michael Randle
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    British civil rights activist peace activist implicated in the George Blake spy scandal.
    Michael Randle used a modified camper van to smuggle this spy out of England and drive him to Eastern Europe.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Randle
    This man was a relation to my grandfather who divorced my grandmother in the 1950's but she kept the name, my grandmother who raised me became like this to me when I found out in adulthood what happened.


    I think this country gas-lit her in the 1970's looking for this guy since she married into that family and the country went apeshit looking for him bugging her phone and everything.
    But my grandmother, sweetest, kindest lady, came off as Tupac in regard to the Police.

    This guy SHAPED my Heroine, which is my maternal Grandmother, that's why Michael Randle, plus, I guess he stood up for what he thought was right, and campaigned for peace.
     
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    My heroes are people who can spell the plurals of words correctly.

    Pacifists are cowards, not heroes. And traitors to the West deserve the death penalty, Jane Fonda and Barack Obama included.


    I never heard of this guy until I read this page, but now he's a hero of mine, and his heroism involved fighting and killing, not sitting on the sidelines waving a white flag of surrender.

    Commander Dudley "Mush" Morton


    "After taking down an entire convoy [of seven Japanese ships] by itself [the submarine] Wahoo was out of torpedoes, so the crew figured, like, cool, we get to go home now. Not a ****ing chance, said Morton. After all they still had ammunition for the deck gun, a pack of Roman Candles and a couple strings a Black Cats, didn't they? Commander Dudley Morton wasn't going home as long as he still had bullets, and if there were shells for the deck guns sitting in the hold he was damn well going to use them.

    First he took on a convoy of eight ships on the surface by himself, using his one ****ing deck gun, and damaged several of the enemy ships before barely escaping after a destroyer depth-charged the **** out of Wahoo. Then he tried to shell a Japanese refinery over a ****ing mountaintop. No American submarine had ever gone so completely out-of-control Frank Castle apeshit on the enemy before. Finally they head back to Pearl Harbor with a broom tied to the mast – clean sweep, killed all the *********kers."


    [And this is just part of the story!]

    http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html
     
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    David Gilmour
     
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    My Hero's

    *Heroes
     
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    My Father and my Uncle Jim who taught me how to hunt, fish, live off the land, work on cars. My mother who taught me about unconditional love. My brothers and sisters in the military that taught me perseverance in the face of adversity.
     
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    Really you're so shallow to judge people on their grammar? Being dyslexic I don't really give a **** about grammar but I find it very sad you would choose to have such a limited and ignorant world view.

    You would hate nearly all my heroes because they're not English or American, ignorant people often do.
     
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