Those I Respect

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Most often one man's hero is another man's villain and it is nothing but a matter of perspective and what is buried in the history pages.
i tend to look at people for what they are and what they stood for than what just one nation has to say about them and look at what a culture of their origin think of them.
 
I am often horrified by what ppl think of men who fought for something they believed in whether right or wrong.  They are judged by future observers who have never known hardship or true loss calling them criminals, murderers, savages for the deaths they caused  but never looking deeper at who it is they killed and why.
 
As a man of military background and certain values that are now looked down at  as if it were some outdated concepts to be made fun of, i admire these past men and women. 

 These men are more than just my ancestors who share the same blood as me but men who embodied what it is to be a man of conviction no matter where the path led even to their death knowing the clear difference between right and wrong without compromising.  

We admire comic characters who have cemented their moral compass but are shocked and horrified when a real life person does the same leading them to specific action. 
 
It's great to hear Rorschach talking about not compromising and killing dirt bags but we turn squeamish when a real person does it to men and women who we may be related to by nationality even when we are in the wrong, morally, ethically with nothing more guiding us but greedy ambition.  We  protect their names and legacy  b/c they are from the same  country you share and we cant ever possibly think of them as anything other then patriots b/c it is unpatriotic to call them what they were so we celebrate them and mire those who  fought for nobler goals but were defeated.
 
 

 Sgt John Riley, Saint Patrick's Battalion
 Sgt John Riley, Saint Patrick's Battalion

feel free to post people you respect and ask each other why, i would be happy to answer if anyone asks me.
 Pancho Villa
 Pancho Villa


 Geronimo
 Geronimo
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#1  Edited By King_Saturn
 a few folks I respect 
 
1. Thurgood Marshall 
2. Malcolm X 
3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
4. Gandhi 
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@King Saturn said:

"  a few folks I respect 
 
1. Thurgood Marshall 
2. Malcolm X 
3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
4. Gandhi  "

that's a good list. 
i would have put them in my list but i chose instead men of controversy and obscurity  whose story were destroyed by the propaganda of the war machine.   
Men who did not sit down nor simply spoke soft words of peace, i chose men who stood up and fought.
 
others are:
 
Floyd Red Crow 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUOkRJsGoRI
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Geronimo is a good one. Personally, a controversial person I respect is Johnny Cash.

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@castleking: 
He wasn't exactly a paragon of moral virtue, but he did things his way with no regrets.
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You might think he's not real to respect, but..... just look at those eyes....
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I shall respect. CHUCK NORRIS
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Hunter S Thompson  
 
Teddy Roosevelt 
 
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby  
 
 
In terms of fiction--The Punisher--He is the most realistic crime fighter ever......face it you could train your body and know martial arts till your blue in the face, You are not dodging a bullet
 
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  • Soren Kierkegaard
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Vladimir Illyich Lenin
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • Maximillien Robespierre
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1. Bruce Lee. 
2. Gandi
3.  Jackie Chan 
 4. Booker T. Washington 
 5. Martin Luther King 
6. Jesus Christ 
7. Chuck Norris 
8. Ronald Reagan 
9. Mohammad Ali 
10. Rosa Parks