Comments on: Late Night: Who’s Your Hero? Pat Tillman and Rachel Corrie http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:51:04 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590856 cleanth Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:49:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590856 <p>Typo above; sorry.</p> <p>For “tow” read “two”.</p> <p>And Jim Forrest, to whose details the link points, is a separate nomination to mine of Bach.</p> Typo above; sorry.

For “tow” read “two”.

And Jim Forrest, to whose details the link points, is a separate nomination to mine of Bach.

]]> By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590853 cleanth Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:47:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590853 <p>Tow heroes of many:</p> <p><a href="http://incommunion.org/articles/conferences-lectures/jim-forest-bio" rel="nofollow">http://incommunion.org/article.....forest-bio</a></p> <p>J. S. Bach (an obvious choice to a ‘cellist who strives to become, every day, a better human being).</p> <p>And if that Bach choice seems flip, consider this: If we were all daily occupied in making beauty and perfecting our rendition of turns and trills (difficult on stringed instruments), we would not have time for all the bloody mischief humankind gets itself into )viz: wars, and so forth).</p> Tow heroes of many:

http://incommunion.org/article…..forest-bio

J. S. Bach (an obvious choice to a ‘cellist who strives to become, every day, a better human being).

And if that Bach choice seems flip, consider this: If we were all daily occupied in making beauty and perfecting our rendition of turns and trills (difficult on stringed instruments), we would not have time for all the bloody mischief humankind gets itself into )viz: wars, and so forth).

]]> By: tjbs http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590395 tjbs Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:09:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590395 <p>Please don’t claim Pat’s not a hero @ 221<br /> He gave up more money than most will ever dream of seeing in our lifetime.<br /> Name a comparable Republican who forsook that much money to defend what he perceived to be a threat to this country? That’s what makes him a hero.</p> Please don’t claim Pat’s not a hero @ 221
He gave up more money than most will ever dream of seeing in our lifetime.
Name a comparable Republican who forsook that much money to defend what he perceived to be a threat to this country? That’s what makes him a hero.

]]> By: MrWhy http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590358 MrWhy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:50:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590358 <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbBUio9J44&feature=related" rel="nofollow">The Ladder</a></p> The Ladder

]]> By: clamberite http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590336 clamberite Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:36:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590336 <p>Let’s go back to Pat Tillman for a minute-McCain spoke at his memorial service, admitting that he didn’t know Pat but basking in the glow none the less. Now that it turns out Pat isn’t a hero, and that the military covered it up, why doesn’t McCain scream in outrage from the rooftops? He’ll take the glory when it rubs off on himself, but will support the cretins who lied to the end. If that doesn’t say something about this man’s character I don’t know what does.</p> Let’s go back to Pat Tillman for a minute-McCain spoke at his memorial service, admitting that he didn’t know Pat but basking in the glow none the less. Now that it turns out Pat isn’t a hero, and that the military covered it up, why doesn’t McCain scream in outrage from the rooftops? He’ll take the glory when it rubs off on himself, but will support the cretins who lied to the end. If that doesn’t say something about this man’s character I don’t know what does.

]]> By: JimTourtelott http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590263 JimTourtelott Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:53:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590263 <p>My all-time hero is Judge William Wayne Justice. (So, btw, was he Molly Ivins’ hero; and Molly herself makes my list). Otherwise:</p> <p>Tom Paine<br /> Walt Whitman<br /> Padraic Pearse<br /> Franklin D. Roosevelt<br /> Frederick Douglass<br /> Martin Luther King<br /> W.E.B. DuBois<br /> George McGovern<br /> Sojourner Truth<br /> Harriet Tubman<br /> Lucretia Mott<br /> Elizabeth Cady Stanton</p> My all-time hero is Judge William Wayne Justice. (So, btw, was he Molly Ivins’ hero; and Molly herself makes my list). Otherwise:

Tom Paine
Walt Whitman
Padraic Pearse
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King
W.E.B. DuBois
George McGovern
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590229 dmac Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:25:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590229 <p>my 217–<br /> peggy gish’s book iraq: a journey of peace and hope</p> <p>art gish’s book hebron journal:stories of non-violent peacemaking</p> <p>wish they would both be on book salon.</p> my 217–
peggy gish’s book iraq: a journey of peace and hope

art gish’s book hebron journal:stories of non-violent peacemaking

wish they would both be on book salon.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590209 dmac Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:09:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590209 <p>and abraham lincoln, the first man i remember thinking, i want to be like him. i was very young. and still feel the same way.</p> and abraham lincoln, the first man i remember thinking, i want to be like him. i was very young. and still feel the same way.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590205 dmac Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:08:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590205 <p>peggy and art gish, members of the christian peacmemaker teams….a unique group.</p> <p>peggy was going to iraq way before anything was in the news about what was happening there, heard her speak about it….if i hadn’t already known what an honest and kind person she is, i wouldn’t have believed it…now, all she said is common knowledge. she is there right now.</p> <p>same thing for art, he’s been going to palestine for years. his book has just been translated to be sold in indonesia…a new cover on it, him in front of a tank…hands up.</p> <p>here is a google page for them, couldn’t pick just one link…<br /> they’ve both written a book, which everyone should read..</p> <p>dwr you said you like memoirs, these are rare. </p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=peggy+and+art+gish+hebron+journal+iraq&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q.....=firefox-a</a></p> peggy and art gish, members of the christian peacmemaker teams….a unique group.

peggy was going to iraq way before anything was in the news about what was happening there, heard her speak about it….if i hadn’t already known what an honest and kind person she is, i wouldn’t have believed it…now, all she said is common knowledge. she is there right now.

same thing for art, he’s been going to palestine for years. his book has just been translated to be sold in indonesia…a new cover on it, him in front of a tank…hands up.

here is a google page for them, couldn’t pick just one link…
they’ve both written a book, which everyone should read..

dwr you said you like memoirs, these are rare.

http://www.google.com/search?q…..=firefox-a

]]> By: tjbs http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590143 tjbs Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:14:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/20/whos-your-hero-pat-tillman-and-rachel-corrie/#comment-1590143 <p>John Ziaylek ,a man’s man,who guided me and lots of others in acting against self interests for the better good.<br /> He could convince you to act nuts and charge into a burning building with the confidence you held the upper hand and would overcome any challenge because they were all new. My local volunteer fire company chief.</p> <p>Other than that those that died for their beliefs without a weapon,<br /> Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Jesus Christ.<br /> Honorable mention: Paul Wellstone and PAT TILLMAN and Rachel Corrie ,I know I’m missing thousands</p> John Ziaylek ,a man’s man,who guided me and lots of others in acting against self interests for the better good.
He could convince you to act nuts and charge into a burning building with the confidence you held the upper hand and would overcome any challenge because they were all new. My local volunteer fire company chief.

Other than that those that died for their beliefs without a weapon,
Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Jesus Christ.
Honorable mention: Paul Wellstone and PAT TILLMAN and Rachel Corrie ,I know I’m missing thousands

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