I am nominating Joe Rodriguez because he represents the kind of quiet, relentless heroism that rarely gets talked about, but deserves to be. Joe is a United States Air Force veteran who didn’t just deploy to Kuwait and Jordan; he left pieces of himself there. He served in combat zones so his children and all of our children could grow up in a safer country. He carried the weight of that service home, and instead of letting it harden him, he turned it into purpose. When Joe left the military, h