My hero is...

February 8, 2003 6:58 PM

My hero is...found in a series of essays. Maybe we can learn from the lives of each other's heroes. Somewhere is a mention of yours. Where? (Comic and game characters, gyros and other sandwiches need not apply.)
posted by ?! (7 comments total)

This reminds me of countless happy hours studying Childcraft, from World Book encyclopedia, which had 2 wonderful volumes about inventors and philosophers and adventurers and scientists.
posted by crunchburger at 7:46 PM on February 8, 2003

Great post. You brought me out of a long absence of commenting to share my gratitude. I wish I had more to say, but I'll be too busy reading the material.
posted by will at 9:13 PM on February 8, 2003

Mine =


Carl Sagan

Martin Luther King Jr.

Teddy Roosevelt

Professor Julius Sumner Miller

Mother Jones

Margarat Sanger

That guy standing in front of the line of tanks on Tiananmen Square


You?
posted by EmoChild at 9:16 PM on February 8, 2003

Professor Julius Sumner Miller is more than a hero. He's a god. ("Why is it so?!")
posted by gluechunk at 10:47 PM on February 8, 2003

yeah
posted by Pretty_Generic at 5:26 AM on February 9, 2003

Someone's selection. Quite an interesting collection.
posted by plep at 12:48 AM on February 10, 2003

I've been thinking about this since the post (actually before the post as another thread made it a hot topic). I was in the middle of reading a book on the history of salt and, because of that, would have to go with Gandhi as my current n^o 1.
posted by Dick Paris at 2:16 AM on February 10, 2003