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The National Garden of American Heroes is a proposed monument to "historically significant Americans." The people represented by realistic statues will include political people, military people, entertainers, athletes, adventurers and explorers, civil rights and labor leaders, inventors and religious leaders. In the presidential order for the garden, thirty-one men and women are named. The location of the garden has not been made yet. It is to be open by July 4, 2026. It was announced by the president of the United States Donald Trump on July 3, 2020. He made the announcement at an Independence Day celebration event at Mount Rushmore National Monument, in South Dakota.

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    President Donald Trump announcing the garden proposal during South Dakota's Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration on July 3, 2020.

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