Your hero!

Do I have to explain everything in the most simplistic way?

You said that Mother Theresa never did anything for you, I used a silly example to show how obviously Jon and Slash do things for you.

So they inspire you, but do you really see them as heroes when all they do is write and play music?

I was talking about users preaching morals to gaz for some peculiar reasons

Well YOU FOOL !! Goose appears to be your Hero , or would it be the original Mr T ? !!!!!!!!

Dawn

My hero would have to be Patrick Henry. He's a great orator and patriot. For some reason I've always found him to be an inspiration. I also have an incredible amount of respect for the Jews who made a stand in the Warsaw ghetto. They showed amazing courage and resolve.

Adrian

In no particular order:

Churchill
myself
folk who fight for what they believe in

I guess this guy makes the short list too

Marine sacrifices his life for others in grenade blast
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Sgt. Rafael Peralta built a reputation as a man who always put his Marines' interests ahead of his own.

He showed that again, when he made the ultimate sacrifice of his life Tuesday, by shielding his fellow Marines from a grenade blast.

"It's stuff you hear about in boot camp, about World War II and Tarawa Marines who won the Medal of Honor," said Lance Cpl. Rob Rogers, 22, of Tallahassee, Fla., one of Peralta's platoon mates in 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.

Peralta, 25, as platoon scout, wasn't even assigned to the assault team that entered the insurgent safe house in northern Fallujah, Marines said. Despite an assignment that would have allowed him to avoid such dangerous duty, he regularly asked squad leaders if he could join their assault teams, they said.

One of the first Marines to enter the house, Peralta was wounded in the face by rifle fire from a room near the entry door, said Lance Cpl. Adam Morrison, 20, of Tacoma, who was in the house when Peralta was first wounded.

Moments later, an insurgent rolled a fragmentation grenade into the area where a wounded Peralta and the other Marines were seeking cover.

As Morrison and another Marine scrambled to escape the blast, pounding against a locked door, Peralta grabbed the grenade and cradled it into his body, Morrison said. While one Marine was badly wounded by shrapnel from the blast, the Marines said they believe more lives would have been lost if not for Peralta's selfless act.

"He saved half my fire team," said Cpl. Brannon Dyer, 27, of Blairsville, Ga.

The Marines said such a sacrifice would be perfectly in character for Peralta, a Mexico native who lived in San Diego and gained U.S. citizenship after joining the Marines.

"He'd stand up for his Marines to an insane point," Rogers said.

Rogers and others remembered Peralta as a squared-away Marine, so meticulous about uniform standards that he sent his camouflage uniform to be pressed while training in Kuwait before entering Iraq.

But mostly they remembered acts of selflessness: offering career advice, giving a buddy a ride home from the bar, teaching salsa dance steps in the barracks.

While Alpha Company was still gathering information, and a formal finding on Peralta's death is likely months away, not a single Marine in Alpha Company doubted the account of Peralta's act of sacrifice.

"I believe it," said Alpha's commander, Capt. Lee Johnson. "He was that kind of Marine."

David Brent
Homer Simpson
Edmund Blackadder

Quite clearly all real people who inspire us all to follow the path of righteousness.

He is my Hero:



Nat

Surely a “hero” is a really subjective term, I see a lot of you trying to point out what a “real hero” is at the expense of other people’s choices. Sure, a lot of you may feel that only the brave and the good deserve the label but to some maybe it will be a rock star or an actor … I remember when I was about 3 or 4 my heroes were David Hasselhoff from Knightrider and John Mcenroe… hardly saint material!

Ok, I’ve got a better idea of what a true hero is now, but surely everyone is entitled to their choices however controversial…

Unless you are an unmitigated set of twatflaps that doesn’t believe in the Inuit, people from Zanzibar or that Jesus was a real person… in which case you should be shot or forcibly educated.

Ok so Gaz has prob pissed loads of people off around here, but I think you're all being a bit unfair on him. A hero is someone personal to you, doesnt matter if its Jesus or Postman Pat really.

Mine was my Grandma...as for famous people I have loads, JBJ, Stuart Pearce, Freddie Mercury, Steffi Graf, John Lennon....