Who hasn't heard of Stan Brock?

For years, Stan was a regular fixture in America's living rooms as co-host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

That program hasn't been on the air for many years now - but the legacy remains. If you watch TV at all, or if you go to the movies, sooner or later you'll hear a reference to Wild Kingdom. One character will refer to another one as crazy as "that guy on Wild Kingdom who wrestles the snakes."

That's the Stan Brock Americans, young and old, have known and loved for years. But that is just one Stan Brock persona.

Stan grew up as a proper English schoolboy. At age 17 he moved to South America where he spent the next 15 years living on one of the world's largest working cattle ranches.

He eventually became manager of the ranch - and of its crew of Indian vaqueros.

It was his experience there that led naturally to his work with the animals of Wild Kingdom and numerous other television and movie projects. Stan also is a pioneer Amazon bush pilot, a noted authority on wildlife management and conservation, and an expert on rain forests and their inhabitants.

But for 25 years there was one haunting image that Stan couldn't get out of his mind - the isolated Indian families who had no medical care. When he lived there Stan provided what medical care he could as an educated, but non-medical person, but he always wanted to find a way to provide these people with the basic medical care that most of us take for granted.

He did it through an organization he founded called Remote Area Medical, an all-volunteer, airborne medical corps that takes skilled medical professionals from various parts of the developed world, to the undeveloped world.

RAM, as the group is called, has completed some 200 missions. RAM volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists, and nurses have treated thousands of patients for everything from dietary decencies to cleft pallet surgery.. Volunteers sometimes often hundreds of patients in a single dawn-to-dusk day. RAM veterinarians work side-by-side with other volunteers to treat the dogs, cattle, and other animals of the people RAM serves.

Many will remember Stan Brock as the fearless and adventurous host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, but what I suspect he will forever be remembered for is his compassionate commitment to the well being of people, as demonstrated in the remarkable work that he is doing to further the possibility that health care should be a right of everyone and not a privilege for just a few.

Stan Brock is the REAL kind of hero.

DR: Tell me about your life and your work.

SB: What is most relevant for this program right now, Dana, is to replicate it throughout the United States because we have a mandate from the American public apparently, with huge quantities of mail coming here from concerned citizens, about the health care crisis in the United States.

Up until a few months ago when 60 Minutes and CBS happened to do a profile of Remote Area Medical's work in this country, the only people who really knew who we were, were the poor. Now the general public knows about us in large numbers. Also the foreign public knows about us now because 60 Minutes plays in a lot of foreign countries. I met somebody yesterday who had been in a hotel in one of the Baltic States and saw us on 60 Minutes.

The problem is, that as long as I have been in this country, which is a long time, people have not been able to...

Name:

Eric Demby

Age:

38 years old

Where are you from:

I was born on a farm in Central Main, I grew up in Boston, went to high school in Connecticut and I have lived in New York for the last twenty years.

Where do you live:

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Occupation:

I run a flea market called The Brooklyn Flea.

100 Years from now what do want to be remembered for?

As of today, I would most like to be remembered for helping Brooklyn, in a general sense, become a place that more people travel to, and a place that is easier to be successful in, for the people who live here, as they try to pursue their passions.

I want to help lead the charge that...

“Imagine if, for just one second, everyone in the world, was cheering you on� -- I thought this thought out loud.

“I wonder what would that be like?�

My high school coach had a tradition. He insisted that, during every game, all his players applaud what was happening on the court. The guys on the team that were sitting on the bench while the game was being played, were given the responsibility of, not only watching every move of every play, but of supporting and acknowledging the work that was being done.

He called it “being in the game�.

Whether a rebound had been snatched, a shot had been blocked or a basket had been made, we were to stand and applaud as an act of encouragement and support. We stood and applauded with enthusiasm, passion and conviction. There would be no exceptions!

It didn’t matter whether we were playing at another school, facing the jeers of the opposing team’s fans, or whether we were playing at home in front of our family, friends and supporters –

We were always expected to stand to cheer!

I am convinced that cheering and supporting contributed to the fact that we were always a winning team.

Displaying support from the sidelines to someone who is playing on the court, plays a critical role in determining the outcome of a game. To be a successful team, a winning team, everybody has to

“Be in the game�.

As a team, we learned the meaning of “having someone else’s back�. We learned the meaning of “being the force behind the finish�. As a team we cheered each other through both good plays and bad, all the way to the win.

In any game and on any team, the support that you provide someone else, could be the very thing that could make the difference between a win for the entire team. In the world of community, family and friends, consider that if the team wins, so do you.

As you step out today, as you step out to play --

“Be in the game!�

Participate by acknowledging someone for who they are and for what they are accomplishing.

Applaud someone. Stand for them, and cheer them on.

That’s my two cent’s (for whatever it’s worth).

Name:

Kibwe Chase Marshall

Age:

32 years old

Where are you from:

Trinidad and Tobago

Where do you live:

Now I live where my job will take me and right now that’s between D.C and New York.

Occupation:

I design apparel.

100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for:

In this moment, 100 Years from now I want to be remembered for informing an industry about many people who might not be recognized in that industry. “That industry� being the Fashion Industry.

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For the most part we take knowledge for granted. Too often, without challenge, we accept what "experts" offer as fact. The Book of General Ignorance provides fascinating information while it re-answers some of our most conventional questions, but what I like most about this book is that it encourages us to be more curious.

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