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Franz Lorenz
certainly Andres Hofer is a symbol
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Ruth Deutschmann
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Benjamin Epp
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2008-08-22
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Sylvia Manning-Baumgartner
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Nicole D´Incecco
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1809
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What does it mean to you to be Tyrolean? Some would say: everything. Tyroleans are the same as everybody else. My father used to answer that kind of question like this: "Boys, remember, there are black and white, red and yellow people, but it doesn't matter how many kinds there are. "How many different races. "There are only good or bad ones." That's the way you have to see it. Of course I like being Tyrolean but I don't think that entitles you to anything. If it does, there has to be a reason. Andreas Hofer surely was an important person in the political situation of the times. I can't say if he was really a hero, as he's been called for the past centuries, because I didn't know him personally. Certainly he's a symbolof the Tyroleans' love of freedom. But in this century, now that we can look and go far beyond our borders, we shouldn't over emphasise our alleged good qualities. There are other good people, too.