Hero
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I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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