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Who do you see as being the hero in your country for me it has to be William Wallace who roused the beaten and frightened Scots to fight against the English tyrant Edward Longshanks the Hammer of the Scots ...he was the most ruthless heartless psychopathic leader in England's long and very bloody history.Longshanks thought nothing of raping and then hanging, children and elderly people from the castle walls, whenever he swept into Scotland...Wallace was a commoner who refused to bow down to this murderer and accept his bribes of english land and titles.He successfully turned a crowd of demoralised Scottish fighters into a well trained and equally ruthless army, who defeated the English at the battle of Stirling Bridge...and again at Bannockburn with Robert the Bruce..When the foundation stone was laid for the Wallace monument at Stirling 30-40,000 people turned out to watch. Wallace is still a hero to the Scots and nobody alive today can match him..
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Well, I probably don't have to tell you people who Willian Tell is. Yes, he's the guy who shot an apple from his son's head, and he's Switzerland's national hero. The story is mostly legend, and no one is sure if he actually existed (I could lose my citizenship for admitting this in public :-)). Switzerland used to be dominated by the Habsburgs, and the Swiss were expected to salute the lord's hat on a pole in the market square when the lord himself wasn't there. Well, Tell refused to do this, and since he was handy at the crossbow, his punishment was the shoot an apple from his son's head. Of course the Habsburg's expected that there was no way anyone could manage this without killing the child, but Tell succeeded. However, by this time he was so mad that he decided to lie in wait at this forest path the lord would have to pass by on his way home to Austria, and when the lord finally shot up, Tell shot and killed him. Of course this kind of revolt against repression made him a Swiss hero, but the Austrians/Habsburgs weren't too please. They arrested Tell, but in a storm he got away, and the Swiss had their hero. Isn't it funny how national heroes are always people who stood up against oppression? Well, it's not really that surprising, but it makes you wonder if a people that has never been oppressed could ever have a hero... or if anyone who has never had to stand up against adversity could ever *be* a hero...
Ah yes, national heroes, some of us in the US, might remember the story of Karen Silkwood. A scrappy Oklahoma nuclear worker who wanted better working conditions for nuclear workers. Karen wasn't alone in her fight, and she wasn't the only one to die for her cause. She stood up for the oppressed, the ones who worked in the shit hole factories, the ones who were exposed to plutonium and other nasty chemicals. why do I regard her as a national hero? Well, her death in 1974 caused many companies to take health and safety in the workplace seriously.
Good question well in the case of Wallace,there is no doubt that he would have rebelled.The catalyst was the muder of his father, by an English lord, in charge of Elderslie where Wallace was born..He killed the Englishman and raided the English garrison..from then on he was utterly determined to win freedom for Scotland..