Can you name a few great men

My Father -- Island Hopping in the Pacific from 1941 to 1945. Ended up in Okinawa waiting for the invasion when Truman had the balls to drop the big onesvia Enola.

That man could eat steel and s--- chains. Miss him much -- today is three years gone. Taught me many important things.
 
Some more....

Ted Williams - pro baseball player (WWII)
Rocky Blier - pro football player (Vietnam)
Pat Tilman - pro football player (Iraq)


just a few......
 
My grandpa served with Jeff Chandler in the aleutians. I saw john kerry on the list was he in vietnam or somethin? Huh I hadnt heard that :p
 
Interesting footnote:

Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo, was a USMC Sgt on Saipan and helped get actor Lee Marvin to safety after Marvin was shot in the ...er... rump. Keeshan, according to Marvin, was standing on the beach amidst shellfire and machinegun fire, directing his troops inland. Marvin called Sgt. Keeshan the bravest man he'd ever met.

Back to our regularly scheduled topic: Great Men

All of the great men who get up and go to work every day at a job they're not thrilled with, just to support the family and they try to raise their kids the best they can -- with love and involvment -- these folks are the true heroes of daily living.

Besides them...
Galileo - Astronomer
Leonardo DaVinci - Genius
Michaelangelo - Artist
Isaac Newton - Scientist
Johannes Gutenberg - Printing Press
John Locke - Philosopher (1632-1704) and influence on our next man...
Thomas Jefferson - Founding father, a classic thinking man.
Benjamin Franklin - Founding father, diplomat, scientist, publisher (and I'm sure he'd add drunkard & ladies man to that list) :D
Theodore Roosevelt - A self-made man's man.
Ronald Reagan - President, Governor, Actor
Sir Winston Churchill - Prime Minister (and a man to respect in his younger years! *whew*!)
Norman Schwartzkopf - General, USA. A professional with humanity.
Dr. Enrico Fermi - Nuclear physicist
Dr. Albert Einstien - Nuclear physicist
Louis Pasteur - Scientist
Linus Pauling - Scientist
Buzz Aldrin - Astronaut
Samuel Clemens - Aka Mark Twain - Writer
Jim Corbett - Hunter, Conservationist (stopped Mahrajah Tiger hunts in India)
John Ford - Director, storyteller (for letting us see ourselves the way we should be)
Robert A. Heinlein - Author
General Curtis LeMay - USAF (Not likeable, but effective)
The Wright Brothers
Guglielmo Marconi - Radio
 
John Moses Browning


"It is not thought that any other individual has contributed so much to the national security of this country as Mr. Browning in the development of our machine guns and our automatic weapons to a state of military efficiency surpassing that of all nations..."

- Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, 1926
Click to expand...
The brilliant gun designer, John M. Browning, invented:
The Winchester 30/30
The pump shotgun
The Colt 45 automatic
The Browning Hi-Power 9mm
The BAR .50 cal. machine gun
The U.S. Army WW I and WW II machine guns, the Browning automatic shotgun and more than one hundred other guns, many of which are still manufactured today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning

He served, and will continue to serve, America through his great inventions.

JRLaws
 
I am not going to mention actors as most have been covered, I will mention role models instead. First Pat Tillman who gave up EVERYTHING for a cause he believed in, the people who fought the terrorists on the plane that went down in pennsylvania, Donald Rumsfeld who saved people in the Pentagon after the plane strike. The fireman and police who died in the twin towers, knowing their fate was sealed.

George Bush for having the guts to do the right thing after 9/11, unlike slick Willy who would have fired a few missles at empty buildings and have the leftwing press hail it as a brave response and success, just think how different things would be if Clinton had taken custody of Bin Laden one of the 3 times sudan offered him,this is the difference between a great man, and a leader, having the courage to do something or just playing it safe.

People I have the utmost respect for, my son now a federal agent who joined the special forces and went to Iraq 3 times, once desert storm, twice Iraqi freedom. My grandfathers who were in WW1 and one in WW1 and at Pearl Harbor and was gassed in germany and saw much action in Germany and france and crawled out under machinegun fire to save a wounded comrade. He is the only man I have ever known that litterally feared nothing, it was like he was missing the fear gene.

All Americans who faithfully performed their duties as military members or supported our military regardless of political beliefs. Jimmy Stewart previously mentioned war hero and one of the most decent human beings Hollywood ever saw, Oh what the h#ll, John Wayne for portraying so many characters that some of us wish we could have been and though never served his country was very patriotic and energized feelings of patriotism in some of his movies and entertained us endlessly. The many celebrities of the USO who at times risked their lives to entertain troops , Bob Hope was this role model. Where would we be without men and woman who had the guts to do the right thing and were willing to sacrafice all, We might still be hailing the Queen, and the greatest nation on earth never would have been.
 
I would like to personaly thank every one that added to this thread

To many people in this country dont know there history.
Lets face it just last week AOL had a vote for the greatest american.
2.5 million people voted. Ronald Ragan was first, but what dissipointed me was that Opra was 4th.
I just dont understand how Opra could beat out FDR, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King.
Its people like you that give me hope.
Happy independance day.
 
Ozzieman,
I'd bet a lot of the people who voted (considering Oprah took 4th) do not really know what they're voting for.... or at least do not consider all facets of "greatness" while voting.

This is why I could only vote for my father.
I have only grown to know one man worthy of my vote - my father.

This of course means, I need to do a little more reading... but it could also mean no matter how much I know/knew - my father (I think) would still be my top choice.

I can only speak for who's great with relation to my existance... A majority of the other men in this thread have contributed greatly. But, I've heard my father tell me stories... stories which have made he and I cry together (a great experience by the way). So, for me, to hear what he's done (and not done) and to hear the man tell it to me (the man who I thought was invincible) was one of the most humbling, empowering, and thought provolking moments in my life - I had no choice but to name him, and him only.
 
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