; and Whereas some of the important contributions of American Muslims in the advancement of our Nation and fundamental to our shared American values, society, and culture, include— (1) military veterans like Revolutionary War Virginian Corporal Bampett Muhamed, Yusuf Ben Ali (also known as Joseph Benhaley), who served in George Washington’s army and fought with General Thomas Sumter in South Carolina, Civil War Union Captain Moses Osman who was the highest-ranking Muslim in that War, World War II Army Corporal Sheikh Nazim Abdul-Kariem, who served in the Battle of Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, Army Sergeant First Class and Korean war prisoner of war Mujahid Mohammed, retired Chief Master Sergeant of the United States Air Force Talib M. Shareef, who now serves as Imam at the Nation’s Mosque in Washington, DC, and the countless other American Muslims who served valiantly in the First and Second World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and most recent conflicts; (2) Yarrow Mamout, the freed African-American Muslim slave who later became one of the first shareholders of the second chartered bank in America, the Columbia Bank; (3) famed architect and designer Fazlur Rahman Khan, who designed the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center; (4) Mohammad Salman Hamdani, the New York City Police Department cadet and Emergency Medical Technician who heroically died helping others in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center; (5) Dr. Farouk El-Baz, geologist and remote sensing scientist who, as Secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee for the Apollo missions, Principal Investigator of Visual Observations and Photography, and Chairman of the Astronaut Training Group of the Apollo Photo Team (1967–1972), was instrumental in helping NASA identify the landing sites on the Moon for the Apollo program