Name a person you admire for any reason (page 3)

Quentin

My wife Kathy, because after all these years she's still here...Terry Walstrom, because he won't let you off the hook...and all the women on JWD who have been candid about their abuse, because it encourages my daughter to overcome her's...

chrissy

ive been reading this book by Lesley Gill called, The School of the Americas. its about US backed terrorism, blowing the lid off of the latin american terrorist training camps throughout the United States, which are hosted, funded, and 100% backed by the US. the trainees are unleashed into s. america to further oppress the economically challenged working poor.

it takes courage to go against the status quo, as Gill has done and her amount of field work is impressive. im not certain on how her book is received outside of the political anthro class in which the book is required reading...but believe me when i say it is quite ill-received within this realm. its like i am amongst a group of pure nationalists. bush-backers who get uncontrollably excited at the very thought of someone suggesting 9/11 brought a level of long over due accountability to US soil. i may not entirely agree with her pro-activist worldview, but i respect her for it. i am getting eaten alive on the discussion board forums because of it.

Leolaia

the_classicist....I just watched "The Shining" last night, so I have to smile and laugh at your new avatar.

Wolfgirl

In my own life, my husband, for supporting me through my personal hell, for opening a whole new world to me, for showing me how to question what I had been taught, and for just loving me unconditionally.

In history, Leonardo da Vinci, because not only was he a scientific genius, but he was also a brilliant artist. He was not afraid to do what he wanted to, regardless of what society said. He was a man far ahead of his time.

Mary

Ray Franz for going with his conscience and letting us know what's really going on inside this religion;

Priscilla Presley. After years of living a bizarre life with Elvis and with no training or skills of her own, she's managed to become an extremely successful business woman and was responsible for making Elvis worth more dead than when he was alive.

The first black students (in Alabama I think) who walked into an all-white school (under the protection of the National Guard) to attend classes in the 1950s or early 1960s. Being white and Canadian, I've never had to face the racial prejudice that they did but I know I'd never have had the courage to do what they did.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, for trying to change things and make the world a better place.

and finally, his son, JFK Jr. just cause he was so DAMN gorgeous!!!

Name a person you admire for any reason

Quentin

chrissy

Leolaia

Wolfgirl

Mary

gumby

Mary

gumby

billyjean

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