"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "DGDevin"
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Hopefully most of the people mourning Jackson are thinking of when he was
undeniably a brilliant entertainer. Not my cup of tea, but it would be
silly to pretend he wasn't extremely good as a performer.

Right, but so what? Why should an entertainer be regarded as a hero? To
me,
a hero is the cop who puts his life on the line every day to guard the
safety
of people he will never meet. The firefighter who runs into a burning
building
when you or I would run out. The nurse who works herself ragged every day
caring for strangers. The EMT working frantically to stabilize an accident
victim in the desperate hope of keeping him alive long enough to reach the
ER.
The retired businessman volunteering at the local library, teaching
children
to read. The soldier. The blood donor. The teacher. The hospice volunteer.

Those are the *real* heros. Not Michael Jackson.
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I believe you have hit the nail squarely on the head!
There was a letter in today's local newspaper from a woman who is undergoing
chemotherapy thanking the people that have donated blood so she might have a
better chance of surviving. Ordinary people, Real heroes.

Jack Cassidy