Although the holiday was changed to President’s Day, for me, this day is a celebration of the first and best president in our history, George Washington. In American history, he is truly the indispensable man.
Michael McKenna offers this shared view in his Washington Times column:
In the
deep of a cold night almost 250 years ago, the remnants of an army waited for
their turn to cross a river and head toward their enemy in hopes of surprising
them on Christmas. Most troops had less than a week left in their enlistments
and were already preparing to head home.
The fading prospects for
American independence would go with them.
It would have been easy for
those soldiers to have slipped off into the night, to not have gotten on the
boats for this one final, probably pointless battle. However, just about all of
them stayed to cross the Delaware, march to Trenton, and surprise and defeat
the Hessians there on Dec. 26, 1776. More than any other, that victory changed
the fortunes of the Revolution.
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