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He was great because he was dedicated to a free America, and he paid a very high personal cost to help the founding of this country.

On December 25, 1776, all was lost. Most of his army had gone home, the hopes for foreign aid and intervention were about gone, and a hangman’s noose awaited him in the spring when the British would come gunning for him.

Still, with his ragtag group of soldiers, many with rags wrapped around their feet, in the bitter wind and cold, took a bunch of hidden, donated boats and forged through the ice floes across the Delaware and captured the Hessian garrison at Trenton.

A “Hail Mary” pass in the annals of war if there ever was one.

Thirty minutes decided the fate of whether America would be stillborn or whether it would die.

Valley Forge was a year in the future then.

But George Washington trusted in God and fought for freedom.

Then he set the example as President. His first act after inaugaration, on April 30, 1789, in New York City, was to march the entire Congress up the road to St. Paul’s Chapel for a worship service to consecrate the new government to God’s care.

Then, when everyone wanted him to be king, he said no, and went home to Mt. Vernon. Two terms, and that is it.

When you visit beautiful Mt. Vernon, and realize this man stayed a total of eight full years away from his home in the service of his country before he became president, you realize what a sacrifice he made for us.

To found a country is an enormous undertaking, fraught with peril. To found a country based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence was unthinkable in that age.

Yet this man, and a whole generation of men, blessed of God, did just that.

And that is why we cannot allow Obama and the Democrat Communist Party of America take our heritage away.

To do so would dishonor all that George Washington fought and lived for.