Who do you look up to?

[Lowprofile]

Everyday Heros. 

[nh_mopar_fan]

My parents came here in 1963 with a 6 month old baby. They spoke no English. Through hard work, they raised a family of 3, put us all through college and retired early.

They live the American dream.

where you guys came from?

Poland.
my father worked construction and later became a pipefitter. My mom worked at a textile mill as an inspector.

[BB1]

Holland,
After WWII and after spending time at a Nazi prisoner camp that almost killed him, my dad came to America with no money and only knowing a few words in English, like yes and no.

He made a good life and had many friends and 2 kids. He worked as a piano tech for 50 years, owned his own business married to my mother since 1961.

My mother bought my first car... a 69 Dodge Charger for $500. in 1983.

He is getting Alzheimer and will turn 82 in a week.

[dkn1997]

Holland,
After WWII and after spending time at a Nazi prisoner camp that almost killed him, my dad came to America with no money and only knowing a few words in English, like yes and no.

He made a good life and had many friends and 2 kids. He worked as a piano tech for 50 years, owned his own business married to my mother since 1961.

My mother bought my first car... a 69 Dodge Charger for $500. in 1983.

He is getting Alzheimer and will turn 82 in a week.

It's called putting in your time on the bottom of the shitheap.  if more people did that, we would all be in better shape..  This guy did it and led a productive life.  it's guys like him who we should hold up as heroes

[no318]

I agree with you on that one!!!

[BB1]

Thanks, I'm just a bit off the old block myself.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Never forget. 

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Whom do I look up to?  Those who know the difference between who and whom.


Seriously though, my grandfather came over from Holland after WWII knowing almost no English.  He had to hide his father in the attic so he wouldn't be conscripted, but he was only about 17 when the war ended.  Talk about your rough childhood.  He used the GI bill to go through law school (I'm coincidentally going to his alma mater right now) and built a life for his family.  Never terribly fancy, but certainly better than the occupation...

[73-charger-383]

i look up to that dude with the handicapped son who runs marathons and stuff with him........the name slips my mind right now, but that guy is my hero ..........

[73-charger-383]

and to the mayo clinic heart surgery team that saved my son.........(at three, he's a wildman already)

[Brock Samson]

 

Leonardo DI vinci
jimi Hendrix
Saint Francis de Assisi
Kelly Johnson
Mohammad Ali
lance armstrong
Troy our fearless peerless leader
Brock Samson
Cody the "golden child" and self professed google master 
T.O. who actually is the future of the hobby
Scarlett Johansson (I wish)   
Pappy Boyington
Parnelli Jones
Bruce Mclaren
Chris G cause he's perfect
Silver 68 cause I'm in awe of his opinion of himself
Kenny aka  Kabb69440 cause he's not afraid to do it his way and all alone too
Oldmoparts cause of his fashion sense
Jules Verne
A Duntov
Peter Griffin
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sly Stone
Joe Houts my Grand Father
Jimmy Carter
Joseph Campbell
Kenneth Patchen look him up
Richard Petty
Christian the Fifth
Dwight D Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vincent Van Gough
   these are but a few.

[Chris G.]

Chris G cause he's perfect

I can finally use this smilie when I am quoting Brock--->  

[70charger_boy]

Brock, for once we agree on something

JIMI HENDRIX RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Orange_Crush]

You know, I keep thinking about it and maybe there are a few folks that I greatly admire.

-Aron Ralston (look it up...the toughest son of a bitch ever to be pushed out of a birth canal)
-Lance Armstrong
-Bono (Using his fame to actually ease the suffering of millions instead of just talking aout it)
-Warren Buffet (Giving away 80% of his fortune to do the same thing)
-Mother Theresa for spending her life amid filth and pestilence easing the individual suffering of people so poor that our percepion of poor does not even apply to it.

[Ponch ®]

I look up to Rocco Siffredi and the dude that invented ATM.

[skip68]

Who do I look up to?  .......EVERYBODY!!!! I'm only 5'3" tall!!!  Mrs.Skip68

[Brock Samson]

Chris G cause he's perfect

I can finally use this smilie when I am quoting Brock--->  

  sorry man it's the other chris... 

[Chris G.]

sorry man it's the other chris... 

Now that hurt.  Even though we both know you meant me. 

[dkn1997]

I look up to Rocco Siffredi and the dude that invented ATM.

Would not want to smell what that rock is cooking....

[71ChallengeHer]

My surgeon. He worked many hours to save my life. The Orthopedic surgeons told me any other Doctor would have sewed me up and let me die. He won't give up on me. I was in surgery from 3:30 pm to 2:00 am. My heart stopped 3 times. And he never gave up on me. Then when the car insurance tried to screw him . He wrote my bill off and told me to have a great life. Plus he saw me the whole time I was pregnant with Shelby and never charged me a penny. Dr. Scott is my hero.

[dkn1997]

sounds like good people to me.

[70charger_boy]

My surgeon. He worked many hours to save my life. The Orthopedic surgeons told me any other Doctor would have sewed me up and let me die. He won't give up on me. I was in surgery from 3:30 pm to 2:00 am. My heart stopped 3 times. And he never gave up on me. Then when the car insurance tried to screw him . He wrote my bill off and told me to have a great life. Plus he saw me the whole time I was pregnant with Shelby and never charged me a penny. Dr. Scott is my hero.

I look up to Dr Scott for keeping you on this earth and gracing us on DC.Com with your hotness

[Charger_Fan]

My surgeon. He worked many hours to save my life. The Orthopedic surgeons told me any other Doctor would have sewed me up and let me die. He won't give up on me. I was in surgery from 3:30 pm to 2:00 am. My heart stopped 3 times. And he never gave up on me. Then when the car insurance tried to screw him . He wrote my bill off and told me to have a great life. Plus he saw me the whole time I was pregnant with Shelby and never charged me a penny. Dr. Scott is my hero.

Holy crap, that's quite a guy!

[Brock Samson]

That's Awsome!!! 
wow!

o.k. some more..

C.C. Myers http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/21/BAGHLPUTLK3.DTL
Miss Piggy
Michaelangelo
all thoise kids in the Great American Spelling Bee 
Kid Chocolote
Mark Twain
All the Astronauts and Cosmonauts  even the dippy one in the diaper 
Stanley Kubrick
Charles Mingus
Enzo Ferrari
Ceasar Chavez
Fidel Castro
A.J. Foyt
Joe Strummer
Bill Lazwell
Amilia Airhardt 
JRR Tolkien
Anyone who's ever adopted a child or taken in a stray anything
Anyone who's ever stepped into the line of fire or a burning building or swam to rescue
Stephen Foster
Gene Wilder
Too Short
James A Michener
William Manchester
Harley Earl
red adair
Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson 

[moparguy01]

That's Awsome!!! 
wow!

o.k. some more..

C.C. Myers http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/21/BAGHLPUTLK3.DTL
Miss Piggy
Michaelangelo
all thoise kids in the Great American Spelling Bee 
Kid Chocolote
Mark Twain
All the Astronauts and Cosmonauts  even the dippy one in the diaper 
Stanley Kubrick
Charles Mingus
Enzo Ferrari
Ceasar Chavez
Fidel Castro
A.J. Foyt
Joe Strummer
Bill Lazwell
Amilia Airhardt 
JRR Tolkien
Anyone who's ever adopted a child or taken in a stray anything
Anyone who's ever stepped into the line of fire or a burning building or swam to rescue
Stephen Foster
Gene Wilder
Too Short
James A Michener
William Manchester
Harley Earl
red adair
Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson 

I feel so unloved. 

[71ChallengeHer]

My surgeon. He worked many hours to save my life. The Orthopedic surgeons told me any other Doctor would have sewed me up and let me die. He won't give up on me. I was in surgery from 3:30 pm to 2:00 am. My heart stopped 3 times. And he never gave up on me. Then when the car insurance tried to screw him . He wrote my bill off and told me to have a great life. Plus he saw me the whole time I was pregnant with Shelby and never charged me a penny. Dr. Scott is my hero.

I look up to Dr Scott for keeping you on this earth and gracing us on DC.Com with your hotness

Thank you very much.