Yes Karen did not post the original list.Well a link to google is not going to aid my understanding. I have limited time and cannot follow every link to everything anybody suggests. Would be nice if you could personally give some voice rather than paste you alphabetical list which is after all said and done a list and nothing more.
The list of heroes posted would not be well known worldwide. They are reported to be those on Flight 93 on 9/11 that stormed the hijacker/suicide bombers. The understanding is this flight was headed for either the US Capitol Building where our Senators and Representatives meet or the White House, which is the home and office of the President.
I suppose in most cases a hero will be a local or area thing. I'd consider the like of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Winston Churchill, George Washington, Abe Lincoln...but would they be heroes?? I'm thinking they are important people who have shaped my world...and most likely heroes to some....but heroes to me, I don't know.
If what we think happened on flt 93 happened what those folks did would be classified as heroic... But I have a really hard time defining what are heroes to me....
I think my heroes are largely unknown to me. Those that make a decision to risk their lives and in doing so save the lives of others....not on a one time basis or when the opportunity presents itself...but those that made the decision to be a hero as an occupation...fireman, policeman, soldiers and the like...I know a few, and they may or may not have done something heroic...they don't talk about it...but daily they put themselves in positions which may require it...