HEROES LIVE FOREVER ( 1ST IN SERIES)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The first of what will be a long running series at 1001 Heroes, this episode tells the story of heroes known and largely unknown from different periods in history and different walks of life.
Today: William F. Cody- one of the world's biggest celebrities by 1900, who brought the American West to a world audience; Virginia Hall, the only female OSS agent to ever receive their highest award for service after she provided espionage service saving allied escapees and training resistance behind Herman lines in Vichy controlled France; The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite firefighting team that lost 19 of its 20 members fighting a wildfire in Arizona; Audie Murphy, who won every medal the US Army had to give in WWII despite being turned down for his size (5;5"), and survived to become an author, song writer and movie star; Carlos Hathcock, the US Marine sniper upon whose head the North Vietnamese Army placed a $30,000 bounty and who helped bring attention to the need for PTSD therapy (as did Audie Murphy);; Abdul Haji, a Kenyan businessman who, upon hearing that Islamic terrorists were killing innocents in a nearby mall, rushed in to help save others; and a heart-rending story of a son's appreciation for his father's years of sacrifice.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by ITVX. |
| 0:03.0 | Whatever is you're looking for from hard-hitting drama to side-splitting comedy, |
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| 0:27.7 | freshest streaming service. And the Oh, Welcome to 1001 heroes, legends, histories and |
| 1:05.0 | right, it seems like everyone has a different definition of hero, |
| 1:09.0 | and rightly so, because it's a term that takes on a wide cast of meanings. |
| 1:13.4 | To some it might be simply a dad |
| 1:17.1 | or a mom or a friend who stood through thick and thin with you |
| 1:21.3 | and helped you to become a stronger person. |
| 1:25.3 | To others, it might be a teacher or mentor, a leader, or a stranger you never met except in a time |
| 1:31.6 | of crisis, such as a first responder a doctor a |
| 1:35.8 | policeman a fireman or a nurse many heroes arise out of wartime and strife. |
| 1:44.0 | All of the above, in one man's opinion, |
| 1:47.0 | deserve as much pay as athletes for the jobs they do, day in and day out. |
| 1:52.0 | My definition of what constitutes a hero or heroes for the purpose of this story is threefold. |
| 1:59.0 | The first being a person who inserts themselves into a bad or potentially harmful |
| 2:04.8 | situation and takes great risks in order to remove a present threat to others. |
| 2:11.0 | The second being a person who shows great courage or leadership which provides inspiration to others, either in a time of crisis or when facing similar situations. |
| 2:22.0 | And third, the heroes whose names have become the stuff of legend. |
| 2:27.6 | In this new 1001 Heroes Live Forever series, we're sharing the stories of heroes of all types. Some of these men and |
| 2:35.4 | women are thought of as legends. Some are barely known outside their spheres of |
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