“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation.”
– George Washington
John McCain uses it constantly but it sounded a little fishy so I asked the Library of Congress to verify it and they can’t.
Here’s McCain “quoting” GW.
HT Daniel Bearden
9:35 am on January 22, 2008
