I would say Amelia Earhart and Annie Oakley. Who are yours?

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Colin Powell...a truly great American. patriot:

Kurt Angle

My late father. He enlisted in the Army during WWII on his birthday.

Shawn Michaels is my American hero.

Lucille Ball and Gilda Radner :)

Ralph Hinkley

Ralph Hinkley
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:music: Believe it or not... :music:

I'd have to say Abraham Lincoln.

James Stewart (See my avatar)

Three letters - F-D-R! :)

Roosevelt saved the American dream.

My hero is actually Ellen DeGeneres. Both of us have gone through a lot of the same things and I don't know anyone else in my life who has. We were both molested and her advice really really helped me through. I also look up to a lot of our American Presidents.

John Walsh. He turned a personal tragedy into a crusade. I admire and have a lot of respect for him.

Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, pioneer women, Pat Tillman just to name a few.

I definately agree with you on that one, Janice...his story always breaks my heart but he managed to turn something so horrible in to positive work.

I also admire John Ritter, as everyone already knows :) It just makes me so happy to see a celebrity that was so modest, humble, kind-hearted, and talented....I am sad he's gone :(




John Walsh. He turned a personal tragedy into a crusade. I admire and have a lot of respect for him.

George of the Jungle :lol:

I would say the Soliders that are fighting over there in the war to save our country is my hero!!! ....

Crispus Attucks

Harry S. Truman aka: Give 'em hell Harry.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

FDR

Paul Newman

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George of the Jungle :lol:


O yeah........................... :grineyes: :faint:

My brother Captain Kevin Porter. Enlisted in the US Army 20 years ago and is over in Iraq fighting as we speak!! He will always be my big brother and my hero!!

My father who enlisted in the army on his birthday during WW2. Thank you dad. I love you and miss you.

My father who enlisted in the army on his birthday during WW2. Thank you dad. I love you and miss you.

Your father did a wonderful thing for his country!! I have a great deal of respect for him and the countless others that give up time with their family to defend our way of life!! I tip my hat to him and all the other soliders in the world.

Michelle

Your father did a wonderful thing for his country!! I have a great deal of respect for him and the countless others that give up time with their family to defend our way of life!! I tip my hat to him and all the other soliders in the world.

Michelle
Thank you. Only those who have defended our country have my respect. Not those who sit back and B***** & complain abt wars and our country. Thanx to all who have defended our country. Even those who were born in other countries and came here, became citizens and defended our country.

O yeah........................... :grineyes: :faint:

I thought that was Jim Morrison at first glance.

Chris Daughtry :king:

The person who created the Hallowed Haunting Grounds. :D

I also admire John Ritter, as everyone already knows :) It just makes me so happy to see a celebrity that was so modest, humble, kind-hearted, and talented....I am sad he's gone :(

I totally agree. :)

American hero , huh? Well, id say John Kennedy, great man who stared down the Russians in the Cuban Missile crisis and avoided WW3

As for a Canadian hero ( well, im Canadian, so I have one :p ) William Hamilton Merritt...founder of the Welland Canal and of Welland, the city i actually live in ( Which was once named Merrittsville in his honour )

When it comes to my heroes,my American Hero is John Cenahttp://john-cena.c0m.it/foto.jpgbecause there were people that didn't like me last year just like there are WWE fans who don't like him,but we both just say FU to the haters and run with the people who stick by our side no matter what.

When it comes to Real American Heroes,my American Hero is Kurt Anglehttp://www.usoc.org/angle.jpgbecause not only did be win a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics with broken neck,but he doesn't care who he faces in the ring and just wrestles them

American hero , huh? Well, id say John Kennedy, great man who stared down the Russians in the Cuban Missile crisis and avoided WW3

As for a Canadian hero ( well, im Canadian, so I have one :p ) William Hamilton Merritt...founder of the Welland Canal and of Welland, the city i actually live in ( Which was once named Merrittsville in his honour )

My Canadian hero is the guy who developed your country's national medical insurance system. :D

JFK
FDR
Lincoln
James Stewart, and anyone who served in any American war-my hats off to you.patriot:

My Canadian hero is the guy who developed your country's national medical insurance system. :D
Yeah, until they actually need medical care...

My Grandma, she was a hard working worman who raised 6 kids WITHOUT government assistance.

Amy Lee
Billie Joe Armstrong
Emmy Rossum
Carrie Underwood
Tina Fey
Jon Heder (who added me on myspace btw)
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
David Space

Yeah, until they actually need medical care...
Well, if it wasnt for out universal heath care, id be dead now, even imperfect health care is better than NO health care....which i couldnt AFFORD under YOUR system!!! :mad:

My Canadian hero is the guy who developed your country's national medical insurance system. :D
Btw, his name was Tommy Douglas...who was recently named " The greatest Canadian" ( in history ) in a nation-wide CBC poll/reality show, so, anyone who thinks Canadians dont love our system, imperfect as it can be at times, should absorb THAT little bit of info!!! ( The only nay-sayers are the rich , who want the system to FAVOUR them, the way it does in the USA )

My Grandma, she was a hard working worman who raised 6 kids WITHOUT government assistance.
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Well, if it wasnt for out universal heath care, id be dead now, even imperfect health care is better than NO health care....which i couldnt AFFORD under YOUR system!!! :mad:
Under MY system, by law, everyone who walks into the emergency room has to be treated whether they have insurance and/or can or cannot pay for it.
You would be able to afford clinics, btw.

Under YOUR system, practically everything, including postage stamps, is taxed to pay for the universal health care. And, again, there is the waiting list.

The waiting list applies to the cases that are not high priority, if you have a real medical emergency you go to the head of the class....but then, the rich here think they should get special treatment...sound familiar , Fleet?
btw, this is off topic, so, Im not going to argue the point anymore. :wave:

Prince and Rick James are also very influential.

My mom, Keith Green, Carroll O'Connor, and Mel Gibson are a few of my American heroes. Michael J. Fox is my Canadian hero.

Abraham Lincoln

The waiting list applies to the cases that are not high priority, if you have a real medical emergency you go to the head of the class....but then, the rich here think they should get special treatment...sound familiar , Fleet?
btw, this is off topic, so, Im not going to argue the point anymore. :wave:
Not always. As the chart shows, there is a waiting list for non-emergency cardiac-type surgery, which means someone can die before her or she gets treated.

No, if someone walks into an emergency room and says, "I'm rich," he or she will still have to wait. Now, rich and famous is something different, but they get special treatment in other countries, too (even Canada ;) ).

Other American heroes of mine:

Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Robert F. Kennedy
Jane Jacobs (the urbanist who stopped a freeway from going through Manhattan)

Does BATMAN count?

I don't have any particular heroes yet. ^^;