| Show Washington Was A Great Loader leader It If there Is one American whose courage and fortitude during years of hardship and discouragement gave the nation na na- tion its opportunity to achieve greatness through once ence It was General George Washington The nations nation's first President and the General who won a war against Great Britain to make the colonies Independent of that nation is rightly remembered leach each Feb 22 and honored as the Father of Ills Country A GREAT general a great President a great engineer and a great American American- George Washington left an Imprint im print which is visible in the freedom and enjoyment of 01 life In every American The proper observance of Washington's birthday anniversary anni did not come about overnight after his death The colonies and the states were slow to recognize the tude ludo of the accomplishment and contributions of General Washington Not only had he hewon hewon won independence for lor the cot col onles he had served as the first President and he had set the precedent for lor a two term limit for Chief Executives IN RECENT years historians lans ians have come to the that the more they study George Washington the great great- er he actually emerges had the the- country not possessed Washington it Is highly doubt lul ful if the Revolution would have succeeded and thus the independence of the United States today might not have been As a soldier and a statesman Washington has no peer Although his portraits sometimes some some- times s seem m cold he was a generous gen gen- erous man loved by his troops and admired by colonists in every corner of the 13 states Washington Is one of the worlds world's great men No other American can rank above I him lie Is the father of 01 the greatest nation on earth and he made its greatness ble All Americans and sally lally the young people of tod today y should be reminded of these facts each year when Feb 22 rolls around |
