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To the editor:
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy,” He would have been able Jo write quite a few tragedies from - this year’s crop of fallen heroes.
It has been almost a weekly occurrence to have yet another evening newscast showing a press conference held by an accused hero who is stoutly maintaining his innocence on an event even his mother would have had a hard time defending.
Yet we keep creating new heroes who invariably let us down. As heroworshippers we are like a woman who always finds her boyfriends in singles bars and then complains that she can never meet a man with any depth. Like the woman, we also tend to find our heroes in all the wrong places and then complain because the magnitude of their vices tends to be directly proportionate to the size of their publicity budget.
But there are, if we look in the right places, people out there to whom we could look up and admire. Recently a letter came into my hands from the Chastains, an American family who live in Puebla, Mexico. They are missionaries, which may seem to us as archaic, idealistic, unrewarding and difficult a job as any job can be. You don’t need to share their beliefs to appreciate
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