Who is Your Hero?

Julie · 12-29-2010, 04:05 PM

Thank You... I have so many hero's in my life - but this one brought me to two hero's in my life.

Jimmy and Keith!

When I was 17 years old, I had been living on the street for about a year (in Hollywood) there was an older couple (28 & 29) who took me in as their daughter. Jimmy and Keith.

They saved my life!

They are both gone now - First Jimmy and then Keith. They had broken up when I was 19 - but Jimmy found Richie and they were married and loved one another till Jimmy died in 1990.

Richie and I made Jimmy his quilt - It was displayed at the Names Project for the first time in 1992 in DC.
I just did a search for the panel on the Names Project Website.

Here is his quilt - Always to be remembered. Jimmy Blue Eyes!

JAGG · 12-29-2010, 08:17 PM

LEWIS B. PULLER "CHESTY"
Remarkable man, awesome leader, loving father, wonderful husband. He waited for 11 years for his wife to finally realize he was the one for her. She almost married someone else, she was engaged to a man she had dated for 3 yrs. . But the closer it got to the wedding date the more she realized all she thought about was Chesty. She compared every man to him, and no one could ever come close . She broke off the engagement and eventually said yes to Chesty who asked her to marry him 11 years earlier, at the time she said no and thought he was crazy for asking . She hardly knew him. And he was going off to war. But they kept in touch as freinds and wrote all the time. On their wedding night, he told her, she had made him the happiest man in the world. He was the most decorated Marine in the history of the Marine Corps. History marks his legend, a fierce unwavering warrior in battle, a calm, intelligent, compassionate, level headed man, off the battle field. A seasoned and decorated combat veteran of 3 wars, a general in his dress uniform who had no reservations about sitting on a hospital room floor and cutting out paper dolls with his 5yr old daughter who just got her tonsils out.
I try to pattern my character after him.

Ima Dandy · 01-03-2011, 12:24 AM

"heros" well i have several catagories ........but in the first is my Mom, my Grammie, my Gram, & my two Great Aunts...they raised me. There is also my Dad & My Gampmie into the mix.........they happened to be femminist too, tho they did not realize it, & taught me to open doors for the former & keep their snow shoveled....they are all my Heros, they taught me right from wrong & respect for others & the animals & water & air & dirt........they knew that you can't live without good soil & good water, that in hard times that the folk around you are who are THERE....they taught me to belive....in myself..in them ...in love...

on the other side of things.............Zorro & Gomez Addams............

& the list of Feminist & Activists is almost endless...........

12-29-2010, 04:05 PM	#1
Julie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Angel * Femme * Lesbian * Girl * Woman * Slut * Bitch * Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: No longer a Virgin Bride to Dreamer ~ May 17th, 2014 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New York Posts: 4,674 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 17,676 Thanked 18,160 Times in 3,633 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Thank You... I have so many hero's in my life - but this one brought me to two hero's in my life. Jimmy and Keith! When I was 17 years old, I had been living on the street for about a year (in Hollywood) there was an older couple (28 & 29) who took me in as their daughter. Jimmy and Keith. They saved my life! They are both gone now - First Jimmy and then Keith. They had broken up when I was 19 - but Jimmy found Richie and they were married and loved one another till Jimmy died in 1990. Richie and I made Jimmy his quilt - It was displayed at the Names Project for the first time in 1992 in DC. I just did a search for the panel on the Names Project Website. Here is his quilt - Always to be remembered. Jimmy Blue Eyes! __________________ “Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine - 1790-1869 http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps4d9fb6c0.jpg I Love You ~ I Love Us May 17, 2014

12-29-2010, 08:17 PM	#2
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,531 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	hero LEWIS B. PULLER "CHESTY" Remarkable man, awesome leader, loving father, wonderful husband. He waited for 11 years for his wife to finally realize he was the one for her. She almost married someone else, she was engaged to a man she had dated for 3 yrs. . But the closer it got to the wedding date the more she realized all she thought about was Chesty. She compared every man to him, and no one could ever come close . She broke off the engagement and eventually said yes to Chesty who asked her to marry him 11 years earlier, at the time she said no and thought he was crazy for asking . She hardly knew him. And he was going off to war. But they kept in touch as freinds and wrote all the time. On their wedding night, he told her, she had made him the happiest man in the world. He was the most decorated Marine in the history of the Marine Corps. History marks his legend, a fierce unwavering warrior in battle, a calm, intelligent, compassionate, level headed man, off the battle field. A seasoned and decorated combat veteran of 3 wars, a general in his dress uniform who had no reservations about sitting on a hospital room floor and cutting out paper dolls with his 5yr old daughter who just got her tonsils out. I try to pattern my character after him. __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

01-03-2011, 12:24 AM	#3
Ima Dandy Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: buying her chocolates forever Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Island of Misfit Toys Posts: 34 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6 Thanked 24 Times in 12 Posts Rep Power: 82135	"heros" well i have several catagories ........but in the first is my Mom, my Grammie, my Gram, & my two Great Aunts...they raised me. There is also my Dad & My Gampmie into the mix.........they happened to be femminist too, tho they did not realize it, & taught me to open doors for the former & keep their snow shoveled....they are all my Heros, they taught me right from wrong & respect for others & the animals & water & air & dirt........they knew that you can't live without good soil & good water, that in hard times that the folk around you are who are THERE....they taught me to belive....in myself..in them ...in love... on the other side of things.............Zorro & Gomez Addams............ & the list of Feminist & Activists is almost endless...........