Odds-n-Ends . Volume 09 | Issue 04

American Heroes

 The top 10 people Americans identified in January, without prompting, as those they admire to call heroes, and where they ranked in July 2001:

2009 Rank                                                    2001 Rank

1.Barack Obamanot ranked
2.Jesus Christ1
3.Martin Luther King, Jr.2
4.Ronald Reagan6
5.George W. Bush19
6.Abraham Lincoln7
7.John McCainnot ranked
8.John F. Kennedy4
9.Chesley Sullenberger
(US Airways pilot who landed in the Hudson River)		not ranked
10.Mother Teresa5