Opinion: Where Are All The Real Heroes At?

Let me open this up by saying what an honor it is to be a volunteer for the Guardian, Wright State University’s school newspaper. I have always wanted an opportunity like this to voice my opinion on many different issues, and this just seemed like a great outlet to be able to reach many people and give them a different take on things around the world.

Let me just open up in the world of entertainment. I have a lot of problems with a lot of the celebrities that grace the covers of our tabloid magazines and newspapers nowadays. For instance, just recently, the legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon, died due to complications caused by blocked arteries. While there was a massive outpouring of grief on Twitter about it, you really didn’t hear much about it in the news media. But when Michael Jackson died a couple of years, oh my god the world just ended! Everyone went stir crazy! His funeral was broadcast on virtually every network on free TV! Yeah, I get it, Michael Jackson was a huge star in the music industry, and set the tone for the music we hear now. I get all of that. But Neil Armstrong changed the course of human history forever. He made it possible for us to be able to walk on another world and view the universe around us in a much different light. But where is his televised funeral, eh? Nowhere to be found…

Why, oh why, are people who are usually some that you wouldn’t want to hang out with in the first place, like Michael Jackson, or Lady Gaga, or even Justin Bieber, put on such a high pedestal in our global society and people like Neil Armstrong are often ignored? Why? Because they didn’t let fame and fortune get to their head and did everything in their power, including some really stupid stunts, to keep getting their names in the magazines, the newspapers, and the mainstream media? I don’t get it. I may never get it. To be honest, it may not even be my place to really get it, who knows. All I do know is that I do get to complain about it all I want to. But I believe that I make a valid point that the real heroes of our world are often the ones that get the shaft.

That’s my opinion, and I’m sticking to it.