On being a Hero.

Why, when I was a kid.....

Our heroes were astronauts and athletes. The Beatles had just hit the U.S., so the Pop Superstar wasn't any ones goal. We looked up to athletes, like, Mark Spitz, Joe Namath and O. J. Simp...... Well, there is my point.

When did the hero step down from the podium. I have to look back on a few years ago when Brittany Spears was told that impressionable youth looked up to her as a role model. She denied that she was a role model.

My 100 word story is about Michael Phelps. The present day Mark Spitz, (He won a lot of medals in the Olympic swimming events.) Someone for kids to look up to. Eating right, working out, smoking pot at a college party.

I think that it has been a long time since heroes were heroes.

Here is my story:


Michael Phelps likes to do everything fast. Whether it is chopping vegetables, signing autographs or learning to speak Chinese, with Rosetta Stone.
On a flight to Europe the in-flight movie was Crocodile Dundee, and that gave him an idea. Redirecting his return flight through Egypt he went to the Nile to show Paul Hogan what he was made of. In his speedo, he jumped in to out swim the crocodiles.
His goal was to beat the records he set in the 2008 summer Olympics. Instead, in London, 2012, he'll be in the paralympics, competing as a double, below knee, amputee.

Working in the field of orthotics and prosthetics, I know a lot of heroes.