Tell us an American that you admire

#juan

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Marion Anderson, Paul Robeson, Abraham Lincoln, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Jim Brown, William Manchester, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Orson Scott Card, Michael Shermer, John Shelby Spong, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, John Irving, James Michener, Noam Chomsky, William Blum, Susan Faludi, Jared Diamond, Robert Silverberg, Stephen Jay Gould, Ernst Mayr, P.J. O'Rourke, Ray Bradbury, John Allen Paulos, Loren Eiseley, Paul Simon, Phil Plait, Robert Carroll, Martin Gardner, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, John von Neumann, LInus Pauling...

Such a wonderful list. I know probably ninety five percent of the names.
I would add: Larry Niven, for his Ringworld series , Dexter has named Orson Scott Card, who's book, "Ender's Game" was a sci/Fi benchmark. I've just finished re-reading Carl Sagan's "Contact" for the umpteenth time. My son is a physicist and his big hero was always Richard Feynman.
 

Simpleton

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Re: RE: Tell us an American that you admire

Finder said:
Colpy said:
A commie Republican?

Now THAT is a shocker!

Where's Tailgunner Joe McCarthy when you need him?

McCarthy is my hero... At least with the one great quote I can think of him ever saying.

If this fight against Communism is made a fight against America's two great political parties, the American people know that one of those parties will be destroyed and the Republic cannot endure very long as a one party system.

Though I would say... he did not listen to his own words of wisdom.

I kind of prefer this quote from John Mitchell, Attorney General, 1969-1972.

John Mitchell said:
The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.
 

Colpy

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Yep.

And John was sane, compared to his wife Martha.......

And yeah, somebody listed Heinlien in their group of admired Americans.....I concur.
 

Daz_Hockey

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RE: Tell us an American t

I'm gonna chip into this one..yes ITN, ME lol, I agree Thomas Paine, I think you know why :p, but actually I thought of some before you wrote that:

Abraham Lincoln (had the balls to say "hang on, liberty and freedom for all?, this is a joke, it's a mockery, this country is currently 2 faced about this and I think we're a laughing stock until we change it"...I've been to the Lincoln memorial, read his speec, it effectivly says that, smrt cookie)

FDR....FINALLY managed to drag america into the most called for fight of good and evil the world has ever known, not that most of america thanked him at the time

Teddy Roosevelt.....Like him, I also love north Dakota, he also gave my town a citation...yes it's true, he visited southampton a couple of times, praised my forebearers highly and of course he did a hell of a lot for conservation.

Rev. Martin Luthor King jr. - no explanation needed

Ronald Reagan - maybe cus he was a crazy old coot, but I thought he was funny

Anastacia Newkirk - (I hear she's not well known in the US), but MY GOD, she's hot, best set of ahem......lungs I ever heard (she's also got a MAJOR Pair and looks amazing) couragous too especially after her breast cancer

Jenny Randolph Spencer Churchill - yes, an American, daughter of the editor of the New York times in the '20's old US money, mother of the greatest brit in history, Mr Winston Churhill.

there you go, my list.....mostly
 

Daz_Hockey

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indeed, great man, as I say, I've got a fondness for North Dakota, it gets a bad rap from a lot of americans, but Teddy loved the place, the old Bull, and as I say, it's really true, he wrote a personal letter to the "citizens of that fine town Southampton, England" said he loved the people and the place, and we'll never forget it.
 

Mogz

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RE: Tell us an American t

Political:
Ronald Reagan

Authors:
W.E.B. Griffin
Tom Clancy

Military:
General John "Black Jack" Pershing
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
 

Ghost_Rider

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Al Gore and John Kerry. Great Americans who have served their country, they believe in what is true even if the majority hate their ideals down here and they have lived lives of significance. They have went through ordeals and become wiser men. Unfortunately they're not always appreciated for that wisdom down here in the dirty south.
 

Mogz

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Re: RE: Tell us an American t

Finder said:
Mogz said:
Political:
Ronald Reagan

Authors:
W.E.B. Griffin
Tom Clancy

Military:
General John "Black Jack" Pershing
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Can you get any more conservative!

Sure. Homosexuals aren't people!
 

I think not

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Team America: Fu.ck Yeah! :lol:

Man that movie was hilarious, everytime I read a post of yours DurkaDurka I crack up, your avatar reminds me of movie scenes.