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...Reading of Captain Carpenter's heroism [June 17], I rummaged through old sports programs for the one of the 1959 Army-Navy game. Under the cadet's portrait is the statement, "Bill seems destined for leadership." Never has such an accurate prophecy been made...
...changes history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
...plain people and don't know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas of sacrifice and death, even of failure." The hero also must touch people's emotions. In modern jargon, that means someone who "turns people...
Heroes are not only soldiers, but champions of political causes. Among the most conspicuous champions today are the fighters for civil rights, and perhaps posterity will find a degree of heroism in that quiet man, Earl Warren, who wrote the historic decision striking down separate-but-equal education. But heroism requires panache, which makes Martin Luther King a more vivid current hero...
...process that also gives American heroism, once achieved, a special status. For despite the glib techniques of image-building, the American chooses his heroes only in a final stubbornness of spirit that resists campaign posters, opinion polls, or cocktail harangues. It is an act that differentiates Americans from other people in other times, who may have felt that their heroes had already become heroes without consultation. The American has a sense of electing his own heroes-a vote freely given that can also be freely withdrawn. Without advice and consent, there are no heroes...