HEROS

[Catfishnut]

Let us do a little survey here. Join in if you wish. The question is... Who is your best hero or mentor and tell us why. It could be your Dad, your Uncle, your Aunt, older brother or someone out of history, etc...

You can name multiple people. But please describe them and write about why you like them or why you adopted their philosophy for life. In other words, who made you?

Not my best choice for the music, but as I get older, I seem to like AC/DC more. for some reason. I just picked this song because it fits the subject. Who made you?

Gordy

 

[addy1]

My parents, dad raised me with tools in my hands, mom was the artist, pottery, painting while raising 8 kids.
Dad and Mom loved nature, we went camping, first in the woods then at the ocean for weeks, hiking, boating, fishing, bird watching. It rubbed off, I am happiest outside.

Owned my own home long before my first marriage, able to care for it myself thanks to using tools all my life.

 

[JohnHuff]

My hero is a minor king of a small kingdom in the 10th century. He treated his subjects well and is an inspiration to his descendents.

 

[sissy]

my hero was my dad .He taught me that what a man can do a women can do .I grew up on a mini farm and worked hard there and with my father in his land clearing business and he also worked nights at Kentle floor tiles .I learned how to clear trees and use a chain saw by the time I was 10 .I could use an axe to split wood that we brought back to our house and sold as fire wood .I unloaded the truck and loaded our big trucks many times .I told my dad I was going to retire at 50 and actually retired 4 months before my 50th birthday and I think he looks down and smiles at me everyday

 

[Catfishnut]

I'd have to say that my number one hero was also my Dad.

He was the superintendant of our local power plant (after working his way up the ladder from the bottom with just a HS education). He was able to take the equipment that GE had designed and built and make it operate many times more efficiently than the GE engineers told him it was capable of. He wheeled and dealed with the railroads and the coal companies to get fuel for the power plant at a lower price than anyone (any power plant in the US) could possibly swing. He was so good at being a "scrounger" - kinda like Klinger on MASH, that he would set up deals with the railroad and the coal companies to obtain derailment coal (which would be a loss to both the RR and the coal companies) for free. He then set up an operation to sift and separate the granite rock from the RR bed that got mixed into the coal during the derailment and sold that granite to actually turn a profit on the whole enterprise. The result was that our power plant was getting paid from three ends, the coal suppliers, the RR and the electric customers. This kept our utility rates near the lowest in the US for years.

During his 43 year tenure at the power plant, he only missed two days of work and when he finally retired, he had so much vacation accrued that he donated it all back to the power plant to use for the other employees who fell upon hardships.

In his entire life, that I know of, he never was angry over anything or he at least never allowed it to show.

Gordy