Happy Birthday, America! Over the past 248 years, America has evolved and changed to become, as the Constitution says, a more perfect Union. However, the most remarkable part of our history was how our great nation was created. Without brave patriots like George Washington, who knows if America would even exist today for us to joyously celebrate every 4th of July? George Washington was the father of our country; a hero whose bravery, dedication, patriotism, and wisdom will never be forgotten. George Washington put everything on the line so that America could be free and would go on to become America’s first president despite his desire to retire to his Mount Vernon estate. While Washington was the face of the Revolution, there were countless patriots in the ranks of the Continental Army whom history may not remember by name but were invaluable to the cause of American independence. The Continental Army was outnumbered, outgunned, and fighting against the greatest empire in the world ─ Great Britain. It seemed like all the unsurpassable obstacles that could be stacked against the patriots were there and more, yet the Continental Army had one thing the British did not ─ the drive for freedom.
