Heroes should be forever

   My Hero car of the day:

 John Wayne's real horse...

For today:

My brothers were always my heroes. I admired them in those sailor uniforms going off to war. Over my 83 years I have had many heroes.

Gene and Roy were my heroes on Saturday mornings at the show.

        

And then there was John Wayne.  Like me, millions of people admired that guy.  Shucks even when he was attacked by cancer, He stood up and said, “I will beat this disease!”  I thought, ‘if anyone can he can!’

Oh yeah, I liked ‘Little Joe’ in westerns and Hiway to Heaven. (Michael Landon).

Then there was the creator of ‘Hey,hey hey Fat Albert,’ Bill Cosby. I loved his characters. I listened to his records and liked every TV program he was in. To me he was your average guy, but fantastically talented.

There were teams I liked, and sorta looked up to. There was ‘Laurel & Hardy, Amos and Andy, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Abbot & Costello and the Three stooges.

Well not all of them would be considered heroes, but someone respected or enjoyed; believing they were also GOOD people.

I despise people who seem to ENJOY RIPPING APART images formed over years.  It happens more AFTER the death of that person.

People in the limelight normally do what is expected of them. If they are entertainers of course they do their best for an audience. I hate for someone to say Abbot was an ass to Costello off screen (or vice versa). They ruin MY ENTERTAINMENT on re runs. No one can convince me that The Duke was racist, it irritates me to hear it from a white man.  I never heard it from a black nor Native American.

It is a horse of a different color when someone who seems to be nice/good lives a ‘second life’, even criminal, and it is exposed while they live. THAT really hurts.  It took me a long time to accept that Bill Cosby ‘might’ be guilty as charged. I am finally ‘kinda’ agreeing. ;-( 

It is the same with so called “Men of God” of all stripes, denominations and faiths.  That cuts to the bone when they disappoint believers.

The above is an example of fools acting a 'Men of the Cloth!'

I attended Sunday School every Sunday of my life growing up. I was impressed by the heroes of the Old Testament. I loved Joseph's story, the good guy wins. I felt sorry for Esau, because I liked him.  So I had heroes in Scripture. One was also brother Stephen.

I am a firm believer that the majority of our pulpits are filled with good men and women many of them Heroes..

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