It's easy to be cynical about heroes and, somewhere early in the story of Captain Sir Tom Moore, there was a daughter with a press release. But the modest aim, clearly, was just to raise a few British pounds for the NHS and help, a man who still felt the need to serve. The rise of this man never felt like the result of a cynical algorithm.
Moore's extraordinary age and humility helped. There was a book ("Tomorrow Will be A Good Day"). talk shows and other stuff, but he was still about as pure a hero as it is possible to be, not the least because his heroism was so rooted in the ordinary.
A walk around his garden, that was all. But a walk after living and serving for a century.
In some ways, the end of Moore's life is like a bucket-list fairy tale, something we might all wish in our most improbable dreams. An ordinary life that became not just a great life, but one that acknowledged as such by much of the world.
--GreGen
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