Media today is unconstrained when it comes to showering images and messages upon our children about how they should act, dress and who they should look up to. Even Disney productions for children, such as Hannah Montana, which any parent would assume would be a good thing for their children to view, has Hannah unable to comprehend the word “no” and dresses at times like a baby pro. These shows do come with an attempt at sending a valuable lesson, the pictorials and story line are the messages they are sending loudest and clearest. The message is that all children should strive to look and act like a movie star.
Kids have always needed a role model to look up to, someone who sets a genuine, good example for them to follow. Of course, TV stars and rock stars are more popular, and are certainly in everyone’s face with TV news and tabloids and the like, but they do not set the ideal example for our kids. Kids need to be aware that they are surrounded by ordinary examples of heroism in firefighters and police officers. These are the people they should take as role models.
Police officers and firefighters are, by most accounts, completely ordinary people, but to those whose lives they are a part of, they are nothing less than extraordinary. Dedicating years of their lives to keeping our country and towns safe, their efforts on the force undoubtedly make a tremendous difference in the lives of countless people.
When many of these officers and firefighter leave the force, they look for another way to serve the public, since public service is such a part of their personal makeup. One outlet for utilizing their training and experience is to produce emergency vehicles for the government. These emergency vehicles include trailers such as FEMA trailers, SWAT vehicles, mobile crime labs, and more. Without such vehicles our country would not be able to assist victims nearly as well.
While a life spent working on the police force or fire station can be a career and life well spent for many, the step to create emergency vehicles takes a life well spent a step even further. Activities such as this are more than enough to classify any one of these men and women as a home town hero. There are others who can classify themselves as heroes for very different reasons.
Many of these home town heroes have been involved in charitable giving that has made a difference in numerous lives. Their charities have supported children in Africa, worthy causes in their own communities and many children’s care and research facilities. No, they do not cure cancer themselves or provide all that everyone needs, but they donate what money and/or time they have and encourage everyone to follow suit.
So, in the end, a good role model does not have to be a TV star or someone who is always popping up with someone else as an “item” in the tabloids. Our police and firefighters have demonstrated that sometimes the role models, the people we should all look up to are those that do their very best every day in the service of others, heroes like police officers and firefighters.
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