Post what you are proud about containing to your heritage and its contribution to the U.S
*Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
2012/06/04 13:28:15
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For those out there who would focus on the insertion of a word by my Android Phone of "Containing," instead of "Pertaining." (Auto word insert)
These are none of my own accomplishments and I wouldn't dare suggests so. These are just people who I draw on when times get rough in my life. They had to suffer through so much and still accomplished their dreams and worked hard for it. I'm proud of them and every other person in this world/country who can make even when society tries to knock you down. Kudos to these amazing people and anyone else from the past, present, and future who will not let what society or other people think of them diminish their spirit.
I'll start with myself; Buffalo Soldiers.
Matthew Henson: explorer.
Dr. George Carruthers
Bessie Coleman
Otis Boykin
Jerry Lawson; to which we all owe our gaming consoles to.
Benjamin Banneker
Katherine Johnson; mathematical Genius
In ancient time:
For helping to win the Revolutionary War, The Spanish War, and every other from those brave souls. Contribution in military strategy, weaponry, engineers, and so on.
For creating Laser eye surgery and the instrument needed for it, detection of bacteria in urine, finding bacteria in blood, spinal fluid, drinking water and food.
For creating/developing devices that located and measured radiation emissions from atomic warheads. Which lead to its use in airports around the world to detect clandestine transfers of fissionable material and portable neutron detectors.
For development of devices that prevent the propagation of plutonium at airfields.
I'm proud of my heritage for their creation/advancement of inventions that are used around the world, for their brilliant minds and resilience. To be told they wouldn't amount to nothing or ever be as intelligent as any other ethnic group and proved everyone wrong time and time again.
For creating/developing devices that located and measured radiation emissions from atomic warheads. Which lead to its use in airports around the world to detect clandestine transfers of fissionable material and portable neutron detectors.
For development of devices that prevent the propagation of plutonium at airfields.
I'm proud of my heritage for their creation/advancement of inventions that are used around the world, for their brilliant minds and resilience. To be told they wouldn't amount to nothing or ever be as intelligent as any other ethnic group and proved everyone wrong time and time again.
Top Opinion
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☥☽✪☾DAW ☽✪☾ 2012/06/04 13:36:21I'm not proud of my heritage, because
+7My Ancestors Were Hired by the Founding Fathers to attack British Ships during the Revolutionary war the Ironic Part is today I am Engaged to a Descendant of John Adams one of the Founding fathers who hired my Ancestor..
However, as much flack as France gets, I'm very proud to have French blood in me.
If it weren't for France (and as you pointed out, a great deal of other people from across many different cultures), America would still be under British rule.
And we wouldn't have this lovely lady, standing in NY harbor:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah...
My mom was the descendant of Irish immigrants.
America made it possible for me to be born of two people from islands on different sides of the Earth.
Thanks, America!
The Cherokee Nation established the first free, compulsory public school system, established the first institution of higher learning west of the Mississippi River, and installed the first telephone west of the Mississippi. They also have awesome casinos.
I am part Passamaquoddy Native American, English, Irish, French, and German.
My native family still resides in Maine and the oldest living basket maker in the tribe is amazing.
My Irish ancestors came here and worked hard - helping to build New England, as well as other parts of the country.
My English ancestors founded the town of Northampton, MA as well as other cities and towns... They came across on the Mayflower.
My German side of my family came here in the 19th century and moved to the midwest and are still there. They helped to create the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
My ancestry is quite interesting and wonderful. I've traced my French ancestry back to France in the 16th Century.
So you are in the 2/9th Cavalry; what's your name? My grandfather and many on his side of the family are from North Carolina. They always have a get together to talk about the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
I will have to come back and post my ancestors contributions. Some of yours are mine as well!!
http://topdocumentaryfilms.co...
...we also bring a quirky sense of humor as well as a reasonably robust vocabulary to the table.
(Oh, and equivocation in lieu of absolutism.)
Tecumseh
Maria Tall Chief
Sacagawea
Will Rogers
Robbie Robertson
Blessed Kateri Teckawitha
Winona LaDuke
Liteoot
As much as 70% of our modern pharmacopeia has been taken from New World Indigenous peoples. Our country's Constitution is based on the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. NO other demographic is the US today has as high a rate of military service or as high a rate of honorable service. I'll quit here...there are SO very many in SO many fields. But my favorite is Squanto, a man who heard a starving baby's cry in the cold of winter and had to do something. If it hadn't been for him, the Plymouth Colony would not have survived. Pocahontas is tragic, she died of smallpox while sitting in the English harbor, aboard the boat that was supposed to, at last, bring her home.
Tecumseh
Maria Tall Chief
Sacagawea
Will Rogers
Robbie Robertson
Blessed Kateri Teckawitha
Winona LaDuke
Liteoot
As much as 70% of our modern pharmacopeia has been taken from New World Indigenous peoples. Our country's Constitution is based on the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. NO other demographic is the US today has as high a rate of military service or as high a rate of honorable service. I'll quit here...there are SO very many in SO many fields. But my favorite is Squanto, a man who heard a starving baby's cry in the cold of winter and had to do something. If it hadn't been for him, the Plymouth Colony would not have survived. Pocahontas is tragic, she died of smallpox while sitting in the English harbor, aboard the boat that was supposed to, at last, bring her home.