The
world needs heroes.
And I
believe they are out there.
What is
a hero? Certainly there isn’t a Superman
or a Captain America or a Batman out there.
But a hero doesn’t have to be super.
A hero doesn’t have to be the perfect definition of a human being. For some the U.S. soldier is a hero. I’m sure when a platoon in Afghanistan
delivers Red Cross packages to children and then plays soccer with them for a
while, those kids have a new hero. For
some people it’s their mom or their dad or their teacher or a kind neighbor or
a brave firefighter. It could be a
friend or a stranger or God or a priest or anyone else who has touched their
life. Anyone could be a hero. I doubt many heroes are perfect. They each have their flaws, but that doesn’t
make them any less a hero.
The
title I chose today is the name of a song by the old country band Alabama. It’s about how everyday people can be angels
to others with something as simple as a kind word.
Although
the people of this world doubt themselves and doubt each other, heroes exist. We see what we want to see. When we look for the faults, we can see only
faults. When we look for heroes…they
aren’t hard to find at all.
I love how you listed off so many specific examples of people that could be considered heroes. Your last sentence was an excellent thesis showing that with a bit of optimism and faith in humanity, we can find heroism in the everyday
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