Veterans and Leadership

Veterans Day is an American tradition to honor those who have served in the armed forces of the United States. Their service is rooted in love of country and community.These values not only shape the brave Americans who enlist in military service, but they also help guide our servicemembers who later become political leaders.Throughout American history, some who take the oath to enlist in our military later take the presidential oath of office.America’s first president under the Constitution, General George Washington, led the Continental Army in the fight against the British throne.Responding to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall’s biography of Washington, Gouverneur Morris, a contemporary of both, wrote to Marshall: “…few men of such steady, persevering industry ever existed, and perhaps no one who so completely commanded himself.”Another military leader to fight Great Britain before pursuing the presidency was our 7th president and the first from the Democratic Party, Andrew…

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