🇺🇸🪖 The Dept of Defense,
Ezra A. Cohen, USSF,
& Pete Hegseth, nominee for SoD,
each posted Emanuel Leutze’s painting
of Washington crossing the Delaware.

The DoD listed 4 Christmas-related Military events:

THE BATTLE OF TRENTON, 1776
George Washington & his Army of teenagers
crossed the freezing Delaware & at dawn on Dec. 26,
2,400 frozen Continentals pushed into Trenton,
surprising the enemy, the DS British,
who surrendered within an hour & a half.

FIRST BATTLE AT FORT FISHER, Christmas 1864,

1896: "STARS & STRIPES FOREVER"
On Christmas Day 1896, while crossing the Atlantic
the notes for "Stars & Stripes Forever" came to Philip Sousa.

1972: OPERATION LINEBACKER II in North Vietnam,
ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
On Christmas, both sides were given a 36-hour break

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/1713087/4-major-military-events-that-happened-on-christmas/

#DoYouBelieveInCoincidences 🤔🇺🇸