July 10, 2020
Here's a List of American Heroes Who Should Go in Trump's New National Garden
by Jeff Reynolds
PJmedia.com
President Trump gave a rousing speech at Mt. Rushmore on Independence Day. In that speech, he announced an executive order creating a “National Garden of American Heroes,” in response to the woke outrage mobs and anarchists who have torn down statues in (Democrat-run) cities across America.
The executive order reads: “The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.”
The order notes, “none will have lived perfect lives, but all will be worth honoring, remembering, and studying.”
The Department of the Interior hopes to have the park open by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
This announcement touched off a lively discussion among my friends on Facebook. We came up with quite a list of folks who should also be included. Here I break them down by category. An asterisk denotes the names that were included in Trump’s executive order. Those without an asterisk were our suggestions.
Note: The list became HUGE. My sincere hope is that this park becomes enormous, and one of the most popular public destinations in America. The very idea fills me with patriotism.
Political heroes
John Adams*
Susan B. Anthony*
Clara Barton*
Daniel Boone*
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain*
Henry Clay*
Davy Crockett*
Benjamin Franklin*
Alexander Hamilton*
Thomas Jefferson*
Martin Luther King Jr.*
Abraham Lincoln*
James Madison*
Ronald Reagan*
Antonin Scalia*
George Washington*
Samuel Adams
Calvin Coolidge
Patrick Henry
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Theodore Roosevelt
Clarence Thomas
Military heroes
Douglas MacArthur*
Audie Murphy*
George S. Patton Jr.*
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
Cultural heroes
Frederick Douglass*
Amelia Earhart*
Dolley Madison*
Christa McAuliffe*
Jackie Robinson*
Betsy Ross*
Harriet Beecher Stowe*
Harriet Tubman*
Booker T. Washington*
Orville and Wilbur Wright*
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, John Glenn, and Alan Shepard
Mel Brooks
Ray Charles
Christopher Columbus
Albert Einstein
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Ford
Aretha Franklin
Earnest Hemingway
Buck Henry
Jim Henson
Bob Hope
Chief Joseph
Paul Harvey
Francis Scott Key
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Herman Melville
Satchel Paige
Rosa Parks
Les Paul
Elvis Presley
Babe Ruth
Sacagawea
Frank Sinatra
Squanto
Sojurner Truth
Henry David Thoreau
Jim Thorpe
Pat Tillman
Mark Twain
John Wayne
Walt Whitman
Heroes of the free market
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Cornelius Vanderbilt
George Westinghouse Jr.
Who else should we honor? Who in this list is more controversial than honorable? Share your thoughts in the comments.
http://pjmedia.com/columns/jeff-reynolds/2020/07/10/heres-a-list-of-american-heroes-who-should-go-in-trumps-new-national-garden-n630064
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