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To: Gauguin who wrote (4498)	11/18/1997 11:01:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I thought about this all through dinner. Heroes and Wimps. And my idea of a true hero is not the one who runs into the burning building, or leads the charge into battle, or performs one act of courage, the grand gesture. I once dove into a really scary surf on Maui to get a little girl who had gotten caught in an undertow-it was very impressive! People applauded. The mother was tearfully grateful. But there was nothing courageous about it. It was an adrenalin reaction to an emergency. It never crossed my mind not to do it. True bravery is the getting up every morning and facing life without an audience, without applause, when sometimes the alternative looks far more attractive. I think we talked about this once before on Feelings and I wrote about my mother's death from cancer. My favorite heroes, literary or film, are the Atticus Finches, the characters in Anne Tyler's books, Marmee in Little Women, Or the coach in Mr. Holland's Opus (I wasn't at all taken with Mr. Holland), Mr Keating in Dead Poets' Society, ordinary people living ordinary lives in an extraordinary manner-extraordinary not because of what they do, but by the nature of how they do it -deliberately and thoughtfully and bravely even in the silence. And you know what? I've gotten to know lots of people here fairly well..and know that several of you meet my criteria for heroism. And not many people will ever even know.