And the Hero Dies in This One

I cried today. It was good.

I was watching October Sky and thinking about the parallels that it had to my life.

The father character seems a whole lot like my father.

One scene in particular the father is giving his son a hard time for wanting to pursue his dreams to work with rockets and space. The father then asks his son how meeting his hero the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The son replies to the father something to the effect of "Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you. Sure, Wernher von Braun is a great scientist. but he isn't my hero." The son walks away and the father goes back to work visibly touched by what his son just said. I wish I had the balls to say that to my dad.

Note: Life never happens like it does in the movies.