The Savior Of George Washington

George Washington, the General, savior of The Revolutionary War, His Excellency, and the first president of the United States, had many qualities that I personally can not find myself relating to. Besides the basics: the height, stern face, and strong build, I find myself an opposite of Washington for more internal matters. To begin, Washington spent a large portion of his life fighting or taking part in a war. His early years spent in fighting on the side of the British where he served under the King’s name. After proving himself he soon led the American Revolution. He took grand amounts of soldiers, Americans of all kinds to finally gain a hand in independence from England. Soon after, he became the president and had say in preparation
In his first annual address to Congress given on January 8th, 1790, George Washington said, “to be prepared for War is one of the more effectual means of preserving peace” (SOMETHING). I feel that as countries continue to prepare for wars, develop new types of weapons that could actually combust the earth at least three times over, everyone gets antsy. People begin to worry of when one country will act irrationally and suddenly detonate something to ruin an entire continent, to bring an extensive amount of destruction to innocent people. Not to say we should not have an army, there should always be preperation, but no country should be submerged in war culture like most of society is today. Furthermore, George Washington was a man to have unlimited courage. He was not afraid to lead his men from the front; straight into a battlefield in which shots are fired from angles all around. Washington was immortal; he could not be killed. In multiple battles, men would shoot towards Washington and only graze his jacket or shoot the horse out from under him. The Columbian Reader (a textbook taught in the nineteenth