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Vanity: Who is Your Most Favorite American from History
Today | Yours Truly

Posted on 07/04/2023 12:10:10 PM PDT by waterhill

I'm bound to the recliner, i had surgeey last week. Been watching all kinds of history.

I'm going with Teddy Roosevelt as #2. George Washington as #1.

What is your #1#2and #3? Just curious and bored.

Happy Independence Day, thanks.

God Bless


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To: wardaddy
Mo most people here love the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.YOU are the one who is in the minority, my FRiend.
141 posted on 07/04/2023 5:21:19 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: Wuli

Great list but they have to be deceased


142 posted on 07/04/2023 5:40:35 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill; Pelham

I was just thru his old stomping grounds last week headed to Durango et al

Fascinating character

Here’s another similar story

https://youtu.be/MNQmZncRZWA


143 posted on 07/04/2023 5:41:10 PM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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I could go with Ted, but he could still kick me into the dirt.


144 posted on 07/04/2023 5:43:54 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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They gotta be dead fools.


145 posted on 07/04/2023 5:53:52 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill

I’ll start a new thread


146 posted on 07/04/2023 5:55:46 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill

18th Century, George Washington.

Honorable mention to The Marquis de Lafayette, a hero on two continents.

19th Century, Frederick Douglass.

Honorable mention to Confederate General Longstreet. Military genius and visionary, he would have been ahead of his time if he had been beamed into the trenches on the western front in The World War.

20th Century

G.I. Joe

Honorable mention:

Ronald Reagan. Anyone who needs an explanation would not understand it. Tragic shame about the Alzheimer’s.

21st Century:

Donald John Trump. Same deal about explanation.

Honorable mention:

G.I. Joe’s grandson. Also Governor Kari Lake of Arizona.

George Washington totally tops overall. Trivia note, he had guys hanged for buggery.


147 posted on 07/04/2023 5:57:12 PM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: waterhill

Robert Edward Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson.


148 posted on 07/04/2023 6:01:44 PM PDT by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: fabjr60

Stonewall is in my top 10


149 posted on 07/04/2023 6:08:52 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill

George Washington.

Not because he won the revolution but because he started the French & Indian war. His screw-up while on a mission for the British Army started a war between them and the Frogs (and their Indian allies) over control of the Ohio Valley.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-young-george-washington-started-war-180973076/

The only reason the French got involved with the American Revolution was they still were angry (at the British) over being driven at gunpoint out of the Ohio Valley.

Without the assistance of the French, it’s not certain the Colonials could have defeated the Redcoats. And even if they had, it’s a certainty it would have taken considerably longer to do so.

So young Washington’s screw-up translated into victory for General Washington when it was for all the marbles.


150 posted on 07/04/2023 6:10:01 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: fabjr60

Lee is a favorite no matter how one feels about the war.


151 posted on 07/04/2023 6:13:41 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Thanks, I will definitely watch this!


152 posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:22 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: waterhill

Francis Marion was cool.


153 posted on 07/04/2023 6:18:07 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: MikeSteelBe
Audie Murphy, you just beat me to it. An American Rambo if there was one. He was a badass.

John Basilone.

154 posted on 07/04/2023 6:19:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fabjr60; waterhill

You two might enjoy this story. The story about Stonewall Jackson starts at the 37:00 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVFO_EUHdw


155 posted on 07/04/2023 6:23:12 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Angelino97

Jesus is an American?

✅ Anti-Establishment
✅ Anti-tyranny
✅ Maverick solution to business
✅ Robust, rested, and ready
✅ Deplorable
✅ Disdainful of bureaucracy, systemic dysfunction, corruption, personality cults and academia without academics
✅ Can-do spirit of ingenuity, perseverance, and productivity
✅ Would give you the shirt off his back
✅ Charitable, compassionate, and kind
✅ Generous with his time, talents, resources, and knowledge.
✅ Knowledge of and skill in construction
✅ Knowledge of and skill in business operations
✅ Knowledge of and skill in healing
✅ Knowledge of and skill in teaching
✅ Knowledge of and skill in garden, farm and field
✅ Knowledge of and skill in varmint and weed control
✅ Knowledge of and skill in fishing
✅ Knowledge of and skill in sailing
✅ Knowledge of and skill in hiking and mountaineering
✅ Knowledge of and skill in wilderness survival
✅ Knowledge of and skill in culinary arts
✅ Knowledge of and skill in event planning and catering
✅ Knowledge of and skill in vehicle and machinery care and maintenance
✅ Knowledge of and skill in firearms handling and use

The list goes on.

"No king but Jesus!"

No wonder all the HR departments have been cut out of the loop. Rejection is their stock and trade. They won't know what hit them.

156 posted on 07/04/2023 6:49:12 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He allowed the government agencies to be heavily infiltrated by Communists. He allowed entry into the UN and the stationing of the UN on U.s territory opening giant spy networks to operate in U.S. under guise of UN state employees. He allowed the Soviet Union to develop atomic weapons. Allowed Mao to take over China. Entered us into the Korean War under the authority of the United Nations and for the first time the US did not fight to win the war just hold territory. He was a disaster from which we have never recovered.


157 posted on 07/04/2023 6:56:34 PM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: cowboyusa

That was Lincoln’s ego. Same type of ego as Barack Obama and Joe Biden.


158 posted on 07/04/2023 6:58:51 PM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: Track9

Daniel Boone.


159 posted on 07/04/2023 7:34:47 PM PDT by arthurus ( Covefe VvW\w)
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To: waterhill

1. Washington
2. Douglass
3. Reagan


160 posted on 07/04/2023 7:36:20 PM PDT by Fury
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