We shouldn't idolize anyone, just appreciate their deeds, actions, learn from them and try to be ourselves. All in all, they're just the same people, like us and not some supernatural beings.
i completely agree with this, each one of those people you listed above that you say we should strive to be like i could point out a major character flaw in. and i do not want my son to try to emulate those people, even though some of the ideas they had were worth taking.

I think that Odin1199....[message error;I] [Username logical fallacy error]

Something about your post just crashed my positronic brain... I'm in safety mode!! Shit,, that hasn't happenedsas in a long time. I have to go lie down now.
Odin is a fiction. don't we all strive to be like the gods? it is much better ideal than striving to be like someone that in their downtime from being a respected freedom fighter was a sexual deviant and maybe pedophile.