Definition of heroe

(The New York Times,...)

Shea , the chairman of Mayor_Wagner_'s_Baseball_Committee , will be joined on the dais by Warren_Spahn , the southpaw pitching ace of the Milwaukee_Braves ; Frank_Graham , the Journal-American sports columnist ; Bill_Mazeroski , the World_Series hero of the Pittsburgh_Pirates , and Casey_Stengel , the former manager of the Yankees .

Their secondary hero is another pro , Willie_Chisholm , who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock strewn gully .

But after that 12 at Los_Angeles he became one_of_the_boys , a bigger hero than he ever had been before .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Such identification comes for each group in each crisis by rewriting history into legend and developing appropriate national heroes .

But we must never forget , most_of the appropriate heroes and their legends were created overnight , to answer immediate needs , almost always with conscious aims and ends .