100 American Heroes

[Rev. Powell]

Great list. I agree with most choices, disagree with very few. There were a few I'd never heard of and learned about.

Honorable mention: Oliver Wendell Holmes.

What choices did you disagree with?

Phyllis Schlafly and Billy Graham because I did not think they were particularly heroic (though I don't especially dislike either of them). Geronimo and Red Cloud because they were heroes, but didn't meet my personal definition of "American."

[RCMerchant]

I agree about the first 2- not about the second. We got immigrints- but not people born here.
I don't agree with Andrew Jackson either.
War is slammed into our heads with comic books and movies to be something cool. And it is cool! I read war comics and watch war movies!
But it's really not.

Wounded Knee- 1890

[pacman000]

If looked hard enough, I could probably come up with a reason to disqualify everyone on this list, even the people I suggested. 

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Still, I wonder if we should try for 150 or 200? There are more great Americans who deserve a spot, even if none of them are perfect. We already have 101 or 102.

[Rev. Powell]

If looked hard enough, I could probably come up with a reason to disqualify everyone on this list, even the people I suggested. 

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Still, I wonder if we should try for 150 or 200? There are more great Americans who deserve a spot, even if none of them are perfect. We already have 101 or 102.

Name whoever you like. I'm not going to repost the actual list, though. I'd just call them honorable mentions.

[RCMerchant]

f**k all this! I have no heros. 

http://youtu.be/f6aCuVkEA-0

[pacman000]

104) John Carver - Wrote the Mayflower Compact.

List thus far:

1. James Madison
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. George Washington
4. Rosa Parks
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Theodore Roosevelt
7. Audie Murphy
8. Gilbert Baker
9. Dwight Eisenhower
10. Grover Cleveland
11. Frederick Douglas
12. Martin Luther King Jr.
13. Davy Crockett
14. Phyllis Schlafly
15. Andrew Jackson
16. Harriet Tubman
17. Daniel Boone
18. John F. Kennedy
19. Roger Williams
20. Geronimo
21. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
22. Harry Truman
23. Bass Reeves
24. Scott Joplin
25. Alexander Hamilton
26. Walt Disney
27. Susan B. Anthony
28. Neil Armstrong
29. Chuck Yeager
30. Ben Franklin
31. John Adams
32. Alexander Graham Bell
33. Walter Cronkite
34. Sergeant Alvin York
35. Orville Wright
36. Wilbur Wright
37. Fred Rogers
38. Madam C.J. Walker
39. Ray Bradbury
40. Nikola Tesla
41. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
42. Elizabeth Ann Seton
43. Laura Ingalls Wilder
44. Billy Graham
45. F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. Helen Keller
47. Jimi Hendrix
48. Louis Armstrong
49. Jackie Robinson
50. Jesse Owens
51. George Washington Carver
52. Red Cloud
53. Christy Mathewson
54. Bruce Lee
55. Walt Whitman
56. Edgar Allan Poe
57. Hank Aaron
58. Stephen Foster
59. Eleanor Roosevelt
60. Dolley Madison
61. Eliza Hamilton
62. Shirley Jackson
63. John Glenn
64. Simon Kenton
65. Quannah Parker
66. John Wayne
67. Jonas Salk
68. Charlie Chaplin
69. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
70. Father Ralph Beiting
71. Muhammad Ali
72. Sam Houston
73. John Lennon
74. Jack Tramiel
75. Calamity Jane ( Martha Jane Cannary)
76. Jim Thorpe
77. John Brown
78. Cesar Chavez
79. Thomas Jefferson
80. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
81. "Secret soldiers"
82. Emily Dickinson
83. Martin Leonard Skutnick III
84. Paul Brown
85. Stanley Kubrick
86. Wyatt Earp
87. Linus Pauling
88. Buckminster Fuller
89. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
90. Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel
91. Ella Fitzgerald
92. William Faulkner
93. Hercules Mulligan
94. Washington Irving
95. Bob Hope
96. Thomas Paine
97. Nathan Hale
98. Pat Tillman
99.  Frank Luke
100. Albert Einstein
101. Lucille Ball
102. Desi Arnaz
103. Edward R. Murrow
104. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
105. John Carver

Noticed we listed 92 twice, so Carver's #105.