100 American Heroes

[Rev. Powell]

A little thread to hopefully bring us together with Americans we all (mostly) admire.

Important rule: NO LIVING PEOPLE. This should cut down on the potential controversies.

I think any such list should start with

1. James Madison



Architect of the Constitution, 4th President, wife founded snack cake empire

[bob]

2 President Abraham Lincoln

He led the nation the American Civil War. He succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.

[indianasmith]

GEORGE WASHINGTON:  The only man who could have been our first President.  At the end of the Revolution, his officers were prepared to crown him as the first King of the United States.  He declined that honor, disbanded his army, and handed his sword back to the Congress. 
It was because of this almost unprecedented act that he was entrusted with the powers of the Presidency five years later.  A man who would refuse a crown freely offered was a man who could be trusted with power.

[claws]

4. Rosa Parks

[Allhallowsday]

5. FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

[LilCerberus]

6) Theodore Roosevelt

[indianasmith]

7.  Audie Leon Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of WW2.

(And a hometown hero of ours!)

[claws]

8. Gilbert Baker

[Allhallowsday]

9. DWIGHT EISENHOWER

[indianasmith]

10.  Grover Clleveland

Arguably the most personally honest man ever to be President of the United States.  When the story of his sexual indiscretions from ten years in the past broke in the middle of the 1884 campaign, he instructed his staff:  "Whatever you do, tell the truth."

[Rev. Powell]

11. Frederick Douglas



Escaped slave, writer, abolitionist

[bob]

12 Martin Luther King Jr.

[chainsaw midget]

13.  Davy Crockett



King of the Wild Frontier, politician, and (according to some sources) one of the last men to die at the Alamo

[pacman000]

14) Phyllis Schlafly

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[LilCerberus]

15) Andrew Jackson
16) Harriet Tubman