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April 29, 2004

HEROES AND HOLLOW MEN: PAT STILLMAN VS. JOHN KERRY

        The archetypal American male hero is not loquacious, not a smooth talker. Much as we may envy the British their Winston Churchills, our heroes are cut from a different cloth. In fact we tend to be suspicious of wordsmiths. We usually favor a plainspoken Ike over an Adlai Stevenson, darling of the literary intellectuals. Whether in films like High Noon, or in a Hemingway story, the heroic American male traditionally was the strong, silent type. As a Ring Lardner character once observed: “Shut up, he explained.” The American hero did his noble deeds and, like Shane, departed, never ever boasting, or calling attention to himself. To do so would violate the hero’s code and would devalue the heroic deeds he had done.
        In recent years the post-modern anti-hero has emerged. This is the self-centered athlete, preening and posturing and pointing to himself in the end zone, the tantrum throwing John Mc’Enroe, the Muhammad Ali wannabes, insisting “I am the greatest”. There’s no doubt Mc’Enroe and Ali were great athletes, but they were terrible custodians of their own greatness. They violated the code of the American hero. In their wake has come a new breed of self flattering, self promoters, not only in the sports world but in the world of business and the arts and even the sciences. Donald Trump has elbowed his way into the collective consciousness, riding a torrent of verbiage. He is heroic because he says so; the fact that his real world accomplishment consists of a bunch of ghastly buildings and money losing casinos is of no importance since his real achievement is his invention of a persona: the Donald. Remember Eliza Doolittle's exasperation with "Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words"? Well indeed words have almost emasculated the very idea of heroic masculinity. Almost, but not quite. Horsefeathers notes that Pat Tillman’s life and death corresponded to the high, heroic American ideal. He will live on as a hero in the collective unconscious of America precisely because he lived in accordance with the old virtues- the strong, silent, modest, manly ideal. He gave no interviews to newspapers, declined to speak with TV reporters and did not exploit his own fame. He died fighting, not arguing on talk TV. He left no memorable words, only deeds. Contrast him with John F. Kerry, the man who can’t stop blabbering about his wartime experience in Vietnam. Horsefeathers confesses to a visceral distaste for Mr. Kerry based on a first hand acquaintance with real battlefield heroes during the Vietnam war. Those men spoke reluctantly of their deeds and refused to call themselves heroes. They were doing their duty, to comrades and country. Even if we grant that Mr. Kerry did the deeds for which he received medals and ribbons, then it is an egregious betrayal of the code for him to repeatedly boast of his wartime service. If Mr. Kerry wants to credit himself with warrior courage, then he should behave like a man in the noble tradition of American heroes. It is truly sickening to learn that Mr. Kerry cannot refrain from referring to his Vietnam service regardless of the topic. The LA Times reports that: “ In one 24-hour period, he invoked his service:

• To fend off attacks by his Republican rivals;

• As evidence he will fight to expand healthcare;

• As evidence he understands the complicated landscape in Iraq;

• To explain his love of peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches.”

        John Kerry has become a caricature of himself, a national embarrassment. When he threw away his ribbons and/or medals, perhaps it was a rare moment of revealing honesty. His self-referential logorrhea about his exploits in 'Nam is clear evidence that he was always unworthy of them.





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