Sunday, February 22, 2015

Shade vTree Wisdom 2/22/15


          Today we observe the birthday of George Washington, the Commander in Chief who won the revolutionary war.  When the war was winding his officers had not been paid for months and were on the point of mutiny when General Washington called his officers to a meeting and assured they would be paid in full.  He read them a letter from a congressman and had difficulty in seeing the page, so he stopped, took his glasses and put them on and said:
  “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles for I have not only grown gray but blind in the service of my country”.

          He left his men in tears.  The mutiny was over.  The Country remains.
May God always bless our native land, firm may she ever stand.”

GPD  2/22/15 

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