100 American Heroes

bob · January 24, 2021, 08:31:48 PM

85 Stanley Kubrick

Revolutionized movie making in so many ways.

indianasmith · January 24, 2021, 09:58:03 PM

86. Wyatt Earp

ER · January 25, 2021, 12:06:38 AM

87. Linus Pauling
88. Buckminster Fuller
89. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

claws · January 25, 2021, 02:20:33 AM

90. Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel

Rev. Powell · January 25, 2021, 08:59:03 AM

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

and

91. Ella Fitzgerald (for Allhallowsday)

92. William Faulkner

ER · January 25, 2021, 12:20:15 PM

92. Hercules Mulligan
93. Washington Irving
94. Bob Hope

RCMerchant · January 25, 2021, 12:28:59 PM

95. Thomas Paine

ER · January 25, 2021, 02:12:43 PM

96. Nathan Hale

bob · January 25, 2021, 03:42:08 PM

97 Pat Tillman

Pat Tillman made the decision to walk away from his career in the NFL and enlisted in the U.S. Army Rangers after 9/11.

He passed away after friendly fire.

Tillman was posthumously promoted from specialist to corporal. He also received posthumous Silver Star and Purple Heart medals.

indianasmith · January 25, 2021, 11:44:47 PM

98. Frank Luke (WWI flying ace known as the "Arizona Balloon Buster".

I met a man who knew him before Luke went off to war!

Rev. Powell · January 26, 2021, 08:57:07 AM

99. Surprisingly, he hasn't been named yet, but no list would be complete without

Albert Einstein: theoretical physicist, the proverbial genius, became a US citizen in 1940

Allhallowsday · January 26, 2021, 11:03:16 AM

LUCILLE BALL / DESI ARNAZ They changed the way we watch television.

RCMerchant · January 26, 2021, 11:09:59 AM

101. Edward R. Murrow

Journalist

Rev. Powell · January 26, 2021, 11:59:12 AM

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.

Allhallowsday · January 26, 2021, 01:59:47 PM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 26, 2021, 11:59:12 AM
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?

100 American Heroes

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