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Message:: [QUOTE="Caleb, post: 1938676, member: 32795"]Why would it have to be a person to replace JF Kennedy on the half dollar? Let the history buffs chime in and let the US Mint issue a circulated commemorative or two, maybe three each year to celebrate a part of our history (the good, the bad and the ugly).  It wouldn’t have to be something to cover every 50 year milestone but if they could come up with something to commemorate from our history every past so many years, maybe our youth and even some of the old timers might learn or remember something about US. Examples could be for 2015, something that happened 50 (1965), 100 (1915), 150 (1865), 200 (1815) or 250 years ago (1765). 1765 – Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" Or 1765 – Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. 1815 – Battle of New Orleans. Or 1815 – US declared war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute. 1865 – Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks). Or 1865 – Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC. Or 1865 – Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24). Or 1865 – General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins. Or 1865 – 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany. Or 1865 – Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery. Or 1865 – Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education.  Or 1865 – Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag".  Or 1865 – President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president.  Or 1865 – CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA.  Or 1865 – General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.  Or 1865 – US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting.  Or 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.  Or 1865 – Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River.  Or 1865 – Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor.  Or 1865 – Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee. 1915 – US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services.  Or 1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.  Or 1915 – 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21.  Or 1915 – SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost.  Or 1915 – US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo. 1965 – 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines).  Or 1965 – Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days.  Or 1965 – The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.  Or 1965 - The Coinage Act of 1965[/QUOTE]

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