For all the fans of "It's a Wonderful Life" and Jimmy Stewart....

[Beringia]

10. Is this post in response to the Dreamer Girl post about military worship?

Stewart was a staunch Republican throughout his life. He supported the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and its investigation of the film industry's communist ties. When director Frank Capra was investigated by the committee, Stewart refused to publicly defend him, because he did not want to get involved. (It's a Wonderful Life was Directed by Frank Capra).

Stewart was a hawk on the Vietnam War, and maintained that his son, Ronald, did not die in vain.




Here is a different kind of hero, one that goes against the grain, which I believe is much harder to do.


Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights

Sakharov was arrested on 22 January 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off limits to foreigners.

Between 1980 and 1986, Sakharov was kept under Soviet police surveillance. In his memoirs he mentions that their apartment in Gorky was repeatedly subjected to searches and heists. Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.