Excluding presidents, which five Americans should every US student learn about?

[MNDude]

I was recently walking through the hall of a Minnesota Elementary School and the walls we're all filled with huge pictures and quotes of Muslim women, Or Hispanic labor leaders.

I of course was not happy to see the propaganda. But I was wondering who it would be good to have instead.

So in your opinion, excluding presidents, which 5 Americans do you think every student should learn about?

[robroys woman]

Patton
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklyn
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Edison

[BuffaloJack]

Benjamin Franklin
Alvin York
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Robert E. Lee

[bankwalker]

Thomas Edison
Jim Rohn

[BenLurkin]

Thomas Edison
Henry Ford

[Former Proud Canadian]

Thomas Edison
Patton
Henry Ford
Ben Franklin

[Retvet]

Benedict Arnold
Al Capone
Tesla
Davey Crocket
Sacajuwia (apology for not knowing how to spell her name)

[Spok]

Good responses. I would add Desmond Doss and Rodger Young.

[madison10]

George Washington Carver
Molly Pitcher
Nathan Hale
Davy Crockett
Dolly Madison

[aspasia]

Great topic.

Paul Revere

[PIF]

Nikola Tesla
Booker T Washington
Neil Armstrong
Audie Murphy
Eli Whitney

[Midwesterner53]

Ben Franklin
Gen Stonewall Jackson
The Wright Brothers
Gen John Pershing
The American Soldier

[BenLurkin]

George C Marshall

[Delta 21]

Jeff Cooper
Nikola Tesla
Ben Franklin
General George S. Patton
General of the Armies John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing

[mrs. a]

Mad Dog Mattis. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” Best quote ever for the school hallway.

[fhayek]

Mark Twain
Anthony McAuliffe
George Gershwin
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan

(in addition to the previous responses)

[miss marmelstein]

I was going to put Robert E. Lee. Students have got to have a more mature and nuanced view of the Civil War. Lee can provide that. I'm sick of the one-dimensional view of the war being pedaled by agit-prop professors.

[Bryan24]

Francis Marion
Daniel Boone
Alexander Campbell
George Washington Carver
Eddie Rickenbacker

[OrioleFan]

Robert E. Lee
Thomas Alva Edison
George Washington Carver
Henry Ford
Hyman G. Rickover

[aspasia]

Todd Beamer "Let's Roll."

[FLIGHT 93]. . . hijackers . . . told passengers, "Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board." Beamer and the other passengers were herded into the back of the plane. The curtain between first class and economy class had been drawn, at which point Beamer saw the pilot and co-pilot lying dead on the floor just outside the curtain, their throats having been cut, as a flight attendant informed him. Within six minutes, the plane changed course and was heading for Washington, D.C.. Several of the passengers made phone calls to loved ones, who informed them about the two planes that had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Beamer tried to place a credit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat, but was routed to a customer-service representative, who passed him on to GTE airphone supervisor Lisa Jefferson. With FBI agents listening in on their call, Beamer informed Jefferson that hijackers had taken over United 93, that one passenger had been killed, and mentioned the dead pilots. He also stated that two of the hijackers had knives, and that one appeared to have a bomb strapped around his waist. When the hijackers veered the plane sharply south, Beamer briefly panicked, exclaiming, "We're going down! We're going down!"[1][7][8] Flight 93 crash site Following this, the passengers and flight crew decided to act.[1] According to accounts of cell phone conversations, Beamer, along with Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, formed a plan to take the plane back from the hijackers.[9] They were joined by other passengers, including Lou Nacke, Rich Guadagno, Alan Beaven, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, Linda Gronlund, and William Cashman, along with flight attendants Sandra Bradshaw and Cee Cee Ross-Lyles, in discussing their options and voting on a course of action, ultimately deciding to storm the cockpit and take over the plane.[1] Beamer told Jefferson that the group was planning to "jump on" the hijackers and fly the plane into the ground before the hijackers' plan could be followed through.[6][7] Beamer recited the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm with Jefferson, prompting others to join in. Beamer requested of Jefferson, "If I don't make it, please call my family and let them know how much I love them." After this, Jefferson heard muffled voices and Beamer clearly answering, "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll." These were Beamer's last words to Jefferson.[1][7][8] linky