[wot i life]

we had a poll on television over here last year and WINSTON CHURCHILL was an emphatic winner of greatest ever briton, so come tell me who is greatest ever American?

[Fozzy]

Thats an awfully short list! LOL! On that list, I'd say Audie Murphy. On my list, there are too many to really count.

[wot i life]

sorry for brevity on list mate, just when british list was made up we had options like john lennon :roll: an insult to great british heroes of the past i thought. i chose list because they are all americans of outstanding physical courage,intellectual ability and their love of their country. admittedly a whole plethora of american legends are missing, but thats where you guys come in and tell me who is the greatest. ps when british poll was out i voted for Queen Elizabeth 1, without her we would all be speaking spanish. you and i! :lol:

[Redeemed]

Oh man this is hard. There are so many to consider. I voted for George Washington as he had such a huge legacy in forming our country. But really any of the founding fathers would be a good pick as well.

Other Presidents to consider would be Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, & Ronald Regan.

U.S. Military heros could be Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Robert E. Lee (yes he led the Confederacy but had an outstanding military career before then), George Patton, Douglas McArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, and any member of the Tuskeegee Airmen among others.

Inventors and leaders in industry like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers.

Martin Luther King & Billy Graham could well make this list too.

Just too many to name.

[AustrianJackhammer]

Lindbergh was a Nazi

[littleman2]

Every American is great great actions do not mean ones great. If you live the dream of america your great. But I would have to say

Ronald Regan great american,
Teddy Roosvelt was the only great Roosvelt. FDR was a commie.

Military Patton, Bradly, Chesty Puller.

Lawmen of the west Porter Rockwell He killed more men then Doc Holiday Bat masters and wyett Errp combined.

So you have to be specific on what catagory you want greatness from.

[yoopr]

the one who saved my life in the military
Have NO British heroes in my book-Long ago relative on my Dad's side was Brewster who was on the Mayflower fleeing British Tyranny.
I guess(there are too many to list) that if I had to choose one it would have to be George Washington who took a rag tag volunteer Army to defeat the British who at the time were the strongest force in the world, against all odds.

[Uturn2001]

IMHO the greatest Americans are the ones who work to provide for themselves and their family and who raise their children with all the love they can.

This is also the greatest Brit, Spaniard, German, Chinese, etc.

[littleman2]

here is another thing not everyone can be a Brit or a swede or Dane or a German etc.... But everyone can be an american. the only way I could be a brit or a canadian or a swede is if I was born there, here you come here and you melt in to the country and become an american. That is what is so great.

My father took me to Arlington and the wall and showed me the graves of the men who died. and you know what he told me the men who died and are rememberd here may have came from Nationalitys from all over the world but they all died an American Hero. Show me any other country that can claim that.

[Fozzy]

Originally Posted by littleman2

here is another thing not everyone can be a Brit or a swede or Dane or a German etc.... But everyone can be an american. the only way I could be a brit or a canadian or a swede is if I was born there, here you come here and you melt in to the country and become an american. That is what is so great.

My father took me to Arlington and the wall and showed me the graves of the men who died. and you know what he told me the men who died and are rememberd here may have came from Nationalitys from all over the world but they all died an American Hero. Show me any other country that can claim that.

I think thats a rather narrow view, All young men of all nations miltaries where gathered together died for their causes and they were all heros in my book. Even on the losing sides, war creates a brotherhood and it is that for which they kill and die for. Politicians and Generals fight wars on paper and look at them as pieces on a game board. The soldiers are fighting for each other where the "metal meets the meat". You should read a few books like Anthony Beevors "Stalingrad" and "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer and even Adolf Gallands, "The First and the Last". All of these books are so personally moving that you can see that all of these people are just alike in almost every respect. History is written by the victors and unfortuneately they tend to color and sanitize things to make their actions seem "better" that their enemies. History eventually proves this as folly.