George Washington's heroic Christmas crossing | Blaze Media

George Washington's heroic Christmas crossing | Blaze Media: 

On that dark, freezing night almost 250 years ago, our first president set a standard for leadership we would all do well to emulate. In the darkness and the frozen spindrift, a cargo boat groans through ice along the Delaware River. At the helm, a heroic shadow, pointing toward land. Behind him, 2,400 soldiers. Most are standing, biting their lips in the frozen air, specks of ice dotting their reddened faces.