We're just grateful to them in some real and intense way. Here in New York, people, they go up to these guys at the firehouses and in the streets, and they just want to say how grateful they are
David Blankenhorn
After all, we've been saying for a generation that fathers aren't really necessary. Why is it so shocking that some men are starting to believe it?
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They are heroes because they protect us, you know? They go in where people are in danger, and they save their lives.
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We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best.
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Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age,.. Heroes were there to be debunked, criticized, made human, brought down to earth.
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We've gone from debunking heroes to needing heroes,.. We're in a time of such danger and such physical vulnerability, and we need to be protected by the strong and the brave.
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