So what is it with the American public? It seems like our national past time is creating heroes and idols just so we can watch them fall. Most recently golf legend Tiger Woods and American Idol sweetheart, Adam Lambert. Perhaps the standards we set for celebrates are way too high for anyone to live up to. I recently watched a series on The History Channel called World War II in HD. I can't begin to define how I felt after watching this extraordinary program but I can say this, after seeing what horrors and conditions these ordinary men and women had to endure, and what they accomplished, others pale in comparison as role models. They were truly the greatest generation. Yet they kept their silence and humility and came back to their ordinary lives to live out their days knowing they had stepped up to do what needed to be done. That is how all celebrity should be treated. Everyone is human, even the greatest of heroes and sometimes, someone will shine a little brighter because of a particular talent or situation..... a singer should be admired for their singing, an athlete for their athletic ability, a politician for their political beliefs, but beneath it all, they're only human and nothing else. If we don't start realizing this and redefine our definition of a hero, then there will never be another.
