Joy as Chilean Miners Reach Surface

[Terpe]

Is anyone else as emotional as I am about this incredible story?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/chile_mine/

[mickcant]

Hi Terpe,
I am pleased they are at last getting out ok
Mick.

[johncar54]

Hi Terpe,
I am pleased they are at last getting out ok
Mick.

Me too, but am I the only one who cannot understand why they are being hailed as heroes?

They were just unlucky to be there at the time.

The rescuers are more in role of heroes.

[Terpe]

And still they surface!!

The rescuers did a fantastic and dedicated job.

Personally, I believe the miners ARE heroes!
Don't forget that for 17 days nobody even knew they were still alive.
Just to try and imagine the phscological and emotional condition.
Then to wonder at the sense of community, compassion and support that the trapped miners exhibited to each other. How they kept their hope and their heads to go on an remain human.
This to me is heroic. Especially from the foreman who comforted, organised and strengthened all 33 through the good, the bad and the ver very ugly.

Just listen to their words when they arrive to a reborn life.

God Bless them all

[stevewool]

what a fantasic thing, and what countries worked together to get them out , a very good story that should make all of us think happy thoughts, wont be long before its on the pictures with arnie, bruce and brat pitt

[johncar54]

Definitions of hero on the Web:

* a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"

[Terpe]

... wont be long before its on the pictures with arnie, bruce and brat pitt

Your right there, I,m sure.
Hope the miners will benefit in some way.

[Terpe]

Definitions of hero on the Web:

* a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"

That's very true.

Personally, I feel that those miners also showed the same qualities in their own struggle to maintain the human spirit.

[Terpe]

Now it's 21 safe.

[Terpe]

Party time in Chile. All 33 now rescued.

[KeithD]

Definitions of hero on the Web:

* a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"

You could say that the RAF pilots "were just unlucky to be there at the time"

[johncar54]

Yes that's right, they did not choose to go up flight after flight, even through the statistics proved they were almost certainly going to be killed, and volunteer to do more flights even when they had reached the number which entitled them to stand down !!!! Or maybe as you said "they were just unlucky to be there at the time"

Sorry in my book they were heroes.

When as a serving police officer I was faced by a man with gun, that was not heroic, it was my job and I was unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I did not choose to be there.

[mikey73]

its great that the miners made it back to their families again. and its great that the lead story on the news is something good, happy and uplifting too rather than the usual doom and gloom we get.

[Dedworth]

its great that the miners made it back to their families again. and its great that the lead story on the news is something good, happy and uplifting too rather than the usual doom and gloom we get.

One of them made it back to his wife and mistress

For Yonni Barrios Rojas it was not quite the reunion he was hoping for.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...greet-him.html

[Dedworth]

Yes that's right, they did not choose to go up flight after flight, even through the statistics proved they were almost certainly going to be killed, and volunteer to do more flights even when they had reached the number which entitled them to stand down !!!! Or maybe as you said "they were just unlucky to be there at the time"

Sorry in my book they were heroes.

When as a serving police officer I was faced by a man with gun, that was not heroic, it was my job and I was unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I did not choose to be there.

There was a good BBC Drama/Film on last month "First Light" about Geoffrey Wellum who at 18 was one of the youngest Spitfire pilots to go into combat in the Battle of Britain. I say he's a hero. More info here http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cornwall...00/8986922.stm

[mickcant]

One of them made it back to his wife and mistress

For Yonni Barrios Rojas it was not quite the reunion he was hoping for.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...greet-him.html

First I have herd of this
A right turn up, does not look like he will get things quite how he wants it.
Mick.

[TorgeirB]

Yes, what a fantastic story this have been

[sars_notd_virus]

yeah watta Joy!!! i've watched it with my mother-in-law and we both end up with a little water in our eyes