Death of Superman

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Death of Superman

CNN is report­ing that actor, Christoper Reeve, died Sun­day after­noon. His fam­ily has requested that any dona­tions be made to the Christo­pher Reeve Paral­y­sis Foundation.

Like many peo­ple of my gen­er­a­tion, Christo­pher Reeve was Super­man. No other actor could ever play the char­ac­ter for us because they weren’t him. He was iconic. He was the mas­sive hero that many of us dreamed of becom­ing some­day. Then when many of us grew up and learned we really were born on Earth and would never develop super­pow­ers; we got some­what bit­ter and turned away from our hero. That began to change in 1995 when Christo­pher Reeve was par­a­lyzed after an eques­trian accident.

Christo­pher Reeve became not the man beneath the cape, not even Clark Kent but rather a reg­u­lar guy with big­ger prob­lems than I hope to ever have to face. And in the face of those prob­lems, Christo­pher Reeve became a hero again defin­i­tively stat­ing that he would walk again, work­ing con­stantly to try and achieve his goal all the while work­ing to inspire oth­ers with to help out those peo­ple with sim­i­lar prob­lems to his.

Mr. Reeve, you will be missed.

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11 October 2004 | 11:13AM | Comments (0)

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