AN UNSUNG HERO:

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Naturalist by devotion, humorist by genetics, hero by default; Kamaroh is a Republican, a Presbyterian, a Polio surviver, a former US Marine, & Great Plains Badger. Earned an MA in English from SFSU. Student & friend of novelist Kay Boyle. His blog is a no profanity zone. There is little edgey emotionalism if he avoids thinking about his children. Kamaroh is a masculinist, places value on fraternity & believes living stag is a responsible and manly option. Particularly apreciative of the charm of Asian females, he discovered in 1999 he is able to love one small lady to the extreme that thinking about her can make his nose bleed. From boyhood forward, he values having male friends & male role models; though this blog is an extention of that belief; it is all welcome. Though containing male posturing, biased poetry, shakey facts, & faulted bachelor housekeeping, this blog's intent is to be good for your health & contains no spanky material. Pardon me if I am speaking too loudly because even with the high tech ... hearing aids the Veterans Administration provides to me, I do not have normal hearing.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

CHESLEY B. "Sully" SULENBERGER

My heroes are mostly go fast individuals; I haven't a clue what kind of vehicles Captain Sulenberger has in his garages at his home in Black Hawk; but, for sure, his history as an USAF F4 Phanton II fighter plane pilot qualifies him to run in the air with Larry & David Ellison and some others; probably not Chuck Yeager. However, I am not going to put him on Kamaroh's hero list. Clearly what he did was clear headed; he was able to sidestep his emotions and extract from his brain what he needed to do when he realized that this incident was, indeed, the real deal--"...controlled and professional." What bothers Kamaroh about him is that he doesn't appear to be a man Kamaroh would encounter and befriend at the YMCA ; he doesn't have the bodily connection that is clearly evident with all Kamaroh's Heroes. His is a cool story but, as Roomate says, what is not factured into the story is (beside the protectioion offered by God) his good luck; Rooomate says that he kept the nose of the plane up as any pilot in the world would have attempted to do but had a second wave or a big gust of wind appeared, or anything, it could have gone much differently! Because, I as well as all foks need heroes--especially we men--if I ever see him in pulic I will give him my world famous 'two thumbs up sign'; and, I will yell enthusiastically, "Hey, Skully!" and with that familiarity, to my mind, I am complimenting him ... but hey! Chesley B. Sullenberger just doesn't make Kamaroh's list.