WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
While touring historic buildings in Alexandria, Virginia., we visited an old church. The guide said that George Washington had attended services there and pointed to his pew. A reverent silence fell. The guide, encouraged, went on to tell us that church services back then had been very lengthy — not infrequently lasting three hours. The mood of the moment was shattered when an anonymous voice whispered loudly, “So George Washington slept here too!” By Frank T. Bailey, Jr., from Readers Digest
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