. Fortunately General Washington shared neither the anti-immigrant bias, nor the anti gay hysteria that defines President-elect Trump and sidekick-elect Pence. If George had been so wrong-headed, the Revolutionary War would have had a much different outcome.
We often read about the starvation and freezing cold that Washington and his troops endured with at Valley Forge, but we rarely hear about the day a merry sleigh hove into view bearing German aristocrat, General Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben and his retinue. On a purely voluntary basis, Von Steuben commenced to turn the beaten down troops into VINNERS! The military genius had been kicked out of his homeland by short sighted homo-phobes – and lucky for us! Well, lucky for George Washington anyway.
Lately (since the election) I don’t think it would have been so bad if we’d remained under the Crown; but Von Steuben’s generous message still resonates.