Ronald Reagan.
Apart from Jesus Christ, I can't name one person who had so much impact on shaping my worldview.
Apart from Jesus Christ, I can't name one person who had so much impact on shaping my worldview.
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Andy Broadley said:Sir Winston Churchill, without whom I would now be speaking German.
Alaxander Bell and Thomas Edison - probably created the first building blocks towards us being online today.
That Russian linesman in the 1966 world cup final
Yep Erwin Rommel was very noble, too bad that he diedWroth said:Some of the greatest and noblest people in my mind were unfortunately on the wrong side of the wars...
Baron von Richtofen (the Red Baron) and Field Marshall Rommel (the Desert Fox) were both great leaders, earning the trust and repect of both their allies and enemies. Both tended not to involve themselves with any of the barbaric practices seen in the war with von Richtofen having even returned personal effects of the pilots he downed to the British aerodromes by parachute.
Rommel ignored orders from Hitler to torture and kill prisoners and even ordered his troops' water rationed so that the prisoners had enough to drink. He has been implicated in the plot to bomb Hitler though it's not very clear what sorta part he played in it. Around the time of the Normandy invasion there is evidence he was testing the loyalties of other officers were Hitler to die, who they would follow and what they would do. He even managed to secure the top Waffen SS officer in his area as someone who would want to end the war. (Can't remember his name off the top of my head)
Both this guys are very reminiscent of the knights of old, fighting not out of hatred, but simply out of a sense of duty. They both died during the wars, going out fighting (well, not really for Rommel, but close enough) and followed to higher moral standards than most other officers. Doesn't hurt that they were both exceedingly good at what they did.
Someone else like this is perhaps General Patton - great leader, fiery personality and awesome at his job. It's been said even that Hitler feared him so much that when the Allies were staging for the invasion of Normandy, they faked that he was preparing an assault at Pas de Calais, the closest point between mainland France and Great Britain. Hiltler ordered that the elite SS units stationed at Pas de Calais not be moved because he was so scared of Patton coming over there. Even after Normandy was overrun, it still took a day or so before he allowed the troops to be moved, thinking that Normandy was a diversion for Patton.
So ya, I love war heros and great leaders.
I also like Sir Drake because apparently my family is traceable back to him and his cousin (can't remember his name either... geez... must be tired or something) on my mom's side... I'd love to actually do that research sometime...
Exactly who I was going to put. But it would seem predictable since I am a feminist.Topaz said:Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Joan D'arc was a saintly soldier, "holiness in armor" as she is also called, persecuted by corrupted French clergymen (such as the Bishop of Beauvais), with the help of the English (who were furious about their defeat), having to go through an unfair trial and ultimately executed.Wilfred of Ivanhoe said:Isn't it true that Joan D'Arc did not become the focus of much historical attention until the women's suffrage & other women's lib. issues began to come to the front? Could it be that historians began to embellish her to have a hero for women to look up to? Was she not given sainthood but 100 years ago?
She was not ignored by the general population.Conversely, it could also be true that historians igonred her because she was a woman until politically it was more acceptable to paint women in this manner.
I actually did my Masters thesis on Joan of Arc's trial. You're right that the English were behind it, with the aid of the theologians from the Universite of Paris who were under the control of the English bishops.Lifesaver said:Joan D'arc was a saintly soldier, "holiness in armor" as she is also called, persecuted by corrupted French clergymen (such as the Bishop of Beauvais), with the help of the English (who were furious about their defeat), having to go through an unfair trial and ultimately executed.
She was only officially canonized, I believe, in 1920, by Pope Benedict XV.
Today's feminist movements may try to use her image, but do not for a moment believe in the usual lies they say about her, as she was a genuine Catholic, and therefore against the radical feminism (which is actually the attempt to do away with feminility once and for all) we see today.
She was not ignored by the general population.
Even in England the animosity towards her had been dropped by the 19th century, and in France she was greatly admired.
All this information and more on her I got at the Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08409c.htm
I know I'm Australian, but I've done a bit of reading on the American Civil War. Perhaps you've just been misinformed so far given that you're only 14 years old.Aduro Amnis said:Why support a thug like Robert E. Lee, a man who fought to protect slavery?