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Nat Geo contest winner - with horrid Photoshopping
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:36:24 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote in : We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Navas saying something like: Anyone that lives through a horrible experience is a hero. No - that'a a survivor. A 'hero' would be someone who, using just a paperclip and a toilet roll, managed to outfox and outgun a gang of armed desperados, releasing the hostages and getting the beers in at the same time. That's a movie, not real life. Don't feel bad, Ronnie Reagan thought his movie roles were real life experiences too. -- Best regards, John Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others |
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Nat Geo contest winner - with horrid Photoshopping
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500, Cynicor
wrote in : Stephen Henning wrote: "RichA" wrote: It's like calling people who were in a bombing "heroes" when all they did was be there, unknowingly. By definition, heros are ordinary people in extraordinary conditions. People that are supposed to be bombed are called soldiers. Well...they're ordinary people in extraordinary situations who then do something unexpected and brave. If a gunman takes hostages and one person cowers in a corner while the other overpowers them, both people are not heroes just because they're both in extraordinary conditions. I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero. Likewise all the passengers, who dealt with the crisis very well indeed. -- Best regards, John Panasonic DMC-FZ8, DMC-FZ20, and several others |
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Nat Geo contest winner - with horrid Photoshopping
John Navas wrote:
I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero. Nah. At least not for the ditching. It was what he was trained and paid to do. He did it well. I understand that he was the last person off the plane because he was walking the aisle making sure everyone else got off. That's to his credit even if a little short of "hero" in my book. -- Doug |
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Nat Geo contest winner - with horrid Photoshopping
John Navas wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:52 -0500, Cynicor wrote in : Stephen Henning wrote: "RichA" wrote: It's like calling people who were in a bombing "heroes" when all they did was be there, unknowingly. By definition, heros are ordinary people in extraordinary conditions. People that are supposed to be bombed are called soldiers. Well...they're ordinary people in extraordinary situations who then do something unexpected and brave. If a gunman takes hostages and one person cowers in a corner while the other overpowers them, both people are not heroes just because they're both in extraordinary conditions. I'd call the pilot that set the jet down in the river a hero. I say he was doing his job. -- Ray Fischer |
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