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George Washington: A VFR collection
Happy Birthday, G. Washington! I’m glad for Washington’s sake that he doesn’t have to see what America has become, an America that, among other things, is outsourcing its vital functions, and even handing the management of its ports to an alien nation. But the memory and example of this great man can still inspire us with the thought that we can be better than we are at present. Here is a most life-like image of Washington, by Houdon, in which, looking directly into his face, we see both his titanic personal force and his seriousness as a statesman:
 Here is a nice way to learn more about Washington that I just came across, brief excerpts from his letters arranged by year. Below is a collection of past VFR writings about Washington. The first entry below features the photo shown here as well as another astonishingly life-like image of Washington by Houdon in the Louvre in Paris. Washington’s Birthday [THIS IS A MUST SEE, FEATURING PHOTO OF HOUDON’S LIFELIKE BUST OF WASHINGTON IN THE LOUVRE.] Happy Birthday, G. Washington! This Sunday we celebrate the 272nd birthday of the man who is justly known—though so few have an adequate understanding why—as the Father of our Country. That the Father of the United States of America was… Washington, our invisible father One of the symptoms of the Western resentment of the father, as touched on in the previous entry, is Americans’ resentment of, or, at the very least, shocking indifference to their own national father, George Washington, whose life and character… G. Washington argues for Independence Most people probably think of George Washington as, of course, strongly supporting Independence when it came in July 1776, and as putting his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor on the line to defend it, but not as a… Here is a story for Independence Day which, though not about Independence Day, concerns two of the heroes of American Independence, George Washington and Patrick Henry. It’s about the time when Washington persuaded Henry, then old and sick, to come… Washington’s first inaugural address and America’s dependence on God Analysis of the religious theme extending through the entire inaugural address. Washington’s first inaugural address Brief entry discussing and linking to my article on the inaugural address. From the New York Times of all places, here’s a nice story that combines American history, Christmas, and a special kind of practical traditionalism: a profile of George Washington re-enactor James Gibson, who this year re-enacted along with seventy other… Washington on the meaning of the national union Anyone tempted to believe the paleo-libertarian and neo-Confederate notion that the United States under the 1787 Constitution was not intended to be a permanent and binding union, that it had no transcendent meaning to the Americans of the Founding generation… James Thomas Flexner, biographer of George Washington, died this week in Manhattan at the age of 95. Here are some thoughts, written down a few years ago, about Flexner’s Washington….
James Thomas Flexner, author of a magnificent four-volume biography of George Washington, has died at 95 at his Manhattan home. Flexner is best known for a one-volume abridgement of his Washington biography subtitled “The Indispensable Man.” But the original four-volume… Email entry |