Who is someone that has shown courage?

Question

can be history, literature, or in real life....

Answer 1

The student who stood in front of the tanks at Tienanmen Square.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

THIS is what courage MEANS

Answer 3

Nelson Mandela

"Tank Man"

Martin Luther King

Malcom X

Paul Atreides (from Dune)

Answer 4

The driver of the tanks who ignored the order to run over the student.

Courage is not always in action but sometimes in reaction.

Answer 5

This little boy and his family have all shown incredible courage:

http://ricbooth.wordpress.com/2008/02/15...

Answer 6

Grace Darling

the steamship "Forfarshire", on route from Hull to Dundee with a cargo of cloths and hardware, struck the rocks on Big Harcar (Then known as Harker's rock) and broke in two. The boilers had earlier leaked and the engines finally gave up leaving the vessel to drift southwards towards the shore in a howling gale.

At quarter to 5 in the morning Grace spotted the stricken ship from her window. It was not until 7 that she and her father spotted survivors on the reef. Her father (52) and herself (22) decided to set out in the family cobble boat to help as they feared that the lifeboats from nearby Bamburgh or North Sunderland would not be able to be launched in such bad weather. They set off to approach the wreck from the south in the lee of the storm. Once there they found nine people alive including a Mrs. Dawson holding the bodies of her two dead children. The cobble could not accommodate them all and five people were taken off. Once they were landed at the lighthouse William Darling and two of the rescued crewmen from the "Forfarshire" set out again for a second trip to take the remaining people off. They arrived back at the lighthouse by 9 a.m. Miraculously, later that day a lifeboat from the "Forfarshire" was sighted by a Sloop which took off another nine survivors and landed them at Tynemouth.

When you consider some of the crappy whining posts on this forum, by girls of the same age who have only ever known a cosetted easy life and is not the kind of story you associate with womens bravery awards in this day and age.