He had the requisite background and humility to become the sort of Godded-up sports hero common to the age.

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Do Sinatra fans think it strange that their hero -- who died in May at age 82 -- is now the focus of academic examination?

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Cruz' father, Rafael, who the senator says has been his hero his entire life, left Cuba in 1957 at age 18.

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The family had no military connections, but from the earliest age, Chris was drawn to the idea of the soldier hero.

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On walks all through her life she would converse in imagination with her hero, Benjamin Franklin, explaining to that great inventor the gadgets of the modern age.

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