I love your ‘moments in history’. Thank you!
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I remember seeing this statue in the Smithsonian when I was a child in the 1960's. It perplexed me; I silently titled it, "George Washington in a bed sheet stabbing himself"!
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About 1970, it was just inside the entrance of one of the Smithsonian buildings. It was a rather startling encounter, to say the least. Even for the early ‘70’s.
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Looks like a Roman George Washington.
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Shouldn't George have a musket instead of a sword...and some friggin' clothes on? Thank you, Michael!
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The Roman toga is likely a reference to the early Roman Cincinnatus who famously passed on continuing to rule and went back to work on his farn. Because Washington did the same thing he earned the nickname the American Cincinnatus.
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Thanks-that is really interesting and will be fun to look up more information about this; I didn't know anything about it!
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A tour guide at the Smithsonian once told my tour group that George Washington is saying, “Here is my sword, and my clothes are upstairs.”
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Too monarch like?
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And godlike
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As well it should have been.... Old George would not have approved, I'm sure.
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Damn, here comes the General for reals!
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Why was it banished?
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Probably for the best
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