airpole 4ever - Thank you...Yes, it is two very good examples.
Parents are the real EVERYDAY heroes.
In fact...I'm going to go hug my parents right now and tell them how much I love them. (>^_^)><(^_^<) Except for my middle brother...I don't know why they brought him into this world...nothing but a troublemaker that guy! I never realized it or admitted it while he was alive, (challenging his patience all the time as a teenager) but my father was my hero.
He immigrated form Asia Minor with his parents only to become an orphan at the tender age of 6.
As a young man he went to the army and fought against the Germans and later joined the resistance in the mountains during the civil war.
A quiet man,almost withdrawn while I was growing up, he lived a modest life, almost never talked about the war and never ever bragged about his bravery.
Only now I come to realize how much he meant to me and how proud he makes feel.
May his memory be eternal.
May some day make my kids feel proud of me too.
Then I'll know my job as a parent is complete I spend only a few years of my childhood in Greece, cause I traveled and stayed in Europe and Africa, however, my favourites of all time were Audrey Hepburn, Alain Delon, Sophie Loren, and on the Greek side, I just loved, the actor called Kostandaras, and the opera singer Maria Callas my hero was the :THE LITTLE HERO: Micros Iroas -Little Hero- was the hero-figure of the children of my youth and the imaginary adventures of resistance he accomplished against the Germans, in an after WWII environment, were the stirring moments of our lifes at that
time.
EDIT: Dvatwork and Last Amazon you both made me feel stupid. That is what I call love and that also answers to a previous question by the same asker about, him who loves his parents never dies. Here are two perfect examples of that. Saint-Exupery's little Prince. Nikos Kazantzakis and his powerful characters.
It was an epiphany for me when I visited his grave in Crete and read his message: "I expect nothing, I fear nothing, I am free!"
In general, I admired the women of the Greek revolution that showed character and bravery, like Bouboulina and Manto Maurogenous, women in the Zalongou dance, (who chose to rather dance to their death than become slaves) and women of WWII who helped with the resistance against the Germans in their own way and are (almost) forgotten. My Grand Father Barba Vaggelis ! who was called also Kemal ! Such serious and beautiful questions from so a young girl!
I had plenty of heroes when I was a child.
First of all, it was Indiana Jones, as I always wanted to be an archaeologist.
Secondly, I liked the "Souliwtisses", the brave and strong women of a certain place in Epirus that was fighting like men (even in Greek Revolution of 1821). I admired the "eteres" of Ancient Greece and I knew their names and their biographies, because they were educated women, though in fact, they were prostitutes for wealthy people.
Most of all, Socrates with his values and his death had a great appeal to me. I learned about him from a certain lesson in school, when I was 15, and I will NEVER forget the message of that human that choosed to live and die the way he liked, never depriving of his dignity and values. He was really a Christ before Christ, the black sheep that was led to death, all though he was innocent. My heroes were my parents, whose families ended up in Greece as refugees from Asia Minor. I won't bore you with a lot of details, but their families lost everything they had. With confidence, bravery, and belief in an ideal, my father came to America to seek his fortune and change his life. My mom, too, came to America in hopes of becoming somebody. The odds they had to overcome were enormous. But with perseverence, strength and hard work they achieved the American dream. It is not a small thing. in history was Alexander the Great and Leonidas
in the comic books was Donalt Duck (I still have a thousand of Mikey Mouse issues and other comics)
in the cartoons were many,
in the cinema was Clint Eastwood
in music was nobody
in politics was the first leader of the socialist party here (which is more like a patriotic party than a socialist one)
in football was Diego Armando Maradona |
