Do you have a "hero" in your family that you'd like to tell - or better yet, brag! - about?

Military? Law Enforcement? Philantrophist? Cancer survivor? War Veteran? Overcome tremendous adversity? Everyday hero?

Who is your family hero and what is their story?

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Hubby is military

I am a cancer survivor

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My father, who just passed away three weeks ago today (8-8-07) was such a quiet hero to our family. He was a WWII veteran who fought in Normandy. He lied about a severe allergy so that he could get into the army and fight the enemy. He raised 6 kids -- sent us all to 12 years of Catholic school --a great sacrifice financially, showed us most of the country, lived a life of high moral standards yet knew how to party hard when the time was right. I didn't always get along with him -- especially as a teenager, but now that I have a teenager of my own, I can cut dad some slack and know that he did the best he could.

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

My nephew, my sister's son, is in the Army - planning to be career. He's been to Iraq twice and is now taking it easy in Okinawa.

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Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

My brother and his son were organ and tissue donors when they died.

My brother was only 47 and was celebrating 25 years of sobriety. He sponsored and helped many people stop drinking and doing drugs through Alcoholic Anonymous. He helped many people get jobs and get their lives back on track. Over 600 people attended his funeral. I am very proud of him. He was a very loved person by many people.

The sad thing is he was killed by a teenager in a car on his way to deliver drugs -- something that fought so long and hard to help people win their battle with.

His son was killed one year to the day the year before in a traffic accident. He had just graduated high school and didn't really have a chance to live yet.

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Donna

my hero: well it would be your father!!!
i heard many stories from my own dad( he was 10 years old when the americans liberated his village in Normandy!)he learn to smoke thanks to them ,and chew gum!!!!
futhermore,we went every summer back to normandy to the American Cemetary.we paid our respect overthere.
we also went to where my dad's family is buried.his little brother who drowned in a pond the day after the American arrived.my dad(10 ) ran to the camp to get a doctor who imediately came to try to save Alain.but to no avail!

so your father is my hero!!!

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By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends

That is very touching and made me cry (big, fat, happy, sad tears). thank you!

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas