Flashback Friday - Clean But Dead - Martin Wiles

Clean But Dead

On a recent school trip to Washington, DC, I visited the family-inherited plantation of General—and later President, George Washington. Washington had served the Continental Army of the United States of America well, and when the time came for the young and newly formed country to declare its independence from Great Britain and elect their first President, he was a natural choice. And when the time arrived for him to die, he informed his wife, Martha, he wanted to be buried on his beautiful Mount Vernon estate. She obeyed his wishes. 

I strolled down a lonesome path and observed the tombs where he, Martha, and other family members are buried. His remains are encased in a beautiful white shelter, but the outward beauty can’t change what’s on the inside: bones from which flesh has decayed and fallen away. Read more...

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