“How would the young people of today define a hero? Where would they start in their analysis, their description, their outstanding qualifications by which they would arrive at such a definition?

Would the hero of their description come from an immediate fad based on violence, immaturity, permissiveness, promiscuity, drugs, or even the hard luck story of someone who fell to the depths of degradation and found their way back to a somewhat normal existence?

What trappings would they dress their hero in: gaudy, vulgar, sensual, sadistic? What emphasis would they put on the person’s, the hero’s behavioral pattern of life? Would the hero be a good person who obviously bases ethics, logic, dignity, genteelness, success, progress on sound moral values and sound moral standards?

Heroism in our day is a bleak unnoticeable means of life. At least the obvious show of true heroism appears to be the lesser in what children are used to seeing as example for them to follow.

If a child were to ask you what you believed to be the most wonderful profession in the world or what would be the best way to strive for a life of fulfillment, who would you give them as example in our modern times?

Who would you staunchly stand behind as exemplary in every way? How many public figures and private ones you know would you suggest a child to imitate, or at least look to as a pillar of sound moral values and sound moral standards?

There is no doubt that in some quiet corners of the earth there are some human beings who quietly, yet generously serve God through their sound morals, values and standards.

Also, there are communities throughout the world that dwell on competitiveness, ego, slander, professional position, most times eliminating sound moral values and sound moral standards.

Heroes have been swallowed up in the immoral values of eagerness to look important rather than to truly be important.”