DrStrange
4 of a Kind
As most of us know, the Washington Monument is one of the great edifices on the South edge of the Capital grounds, just East of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial. It stands just over 555 feet tall and took forty years to complete. It was the tallest structure in the world prior to the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. But there is a lot to the story behind this building that is not well known and I thought I would share these secrets with you today. . . .It all started with George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion.
President Washington received a vision from the Lord in 1791 who warned him that our great nation was going to suffer a period of suffering and depravation. He was directed to gather all the Whiskey in the land and store it against time of famine. So it was that the President gathered the might of America and sent it to Western Pennsylvania to gather and preserve this elixir for future generations of Americans. The Westerns resisted these efforts and thus began the Whiskey Rebellion.
With guidance from above, President Washington was able to secure the nation's government with limited loss of life and secure the whiskey for future needs. However, the President was forced to raise taxes to fund this military venture, a great sin. Washington was punished for this misdeed and was not allowed to see the completion of his quest.
Indeed, the nation itself had to wait 40 years for the next step in the prophecy during which time the British came and tried to steal this precious liquid. Angered by their inability to find the secret stores of whiskey, the British burned much of the US capital - but not the sacred resting place of this immortal drink.
Construction of the Washington Monument began with a design in 1840, based on Washington's vision for a sacred storage vessel for the Nation's Whiskey. Work on the actual monument began in 1848 and publicly halted from 1854 to 1877. But secretly these twenty years were used to create secret chambers inside the monument where the Whiskey gathered during the rebellion could be safely stored.
By completion in 1888, over four million gallons of Pennsylvania Whiskey were stored in granite and marble chambers and sealed against the ravages of time. These chambers were not breached until the 1920s when prohibition caused great suffering in the land. President Hoover authorized a draw down of Whiskey for the military and government use, but he drew down too little for the needs of WWI vets which precipitated the revolt of the "bonus army" in 1932 where 43,000 citizens marched on Washington DC. The revolt was put down and the Washington Monument's chambers were again sealed.
The Monument remained untouched for many years. However in 2008 the People of the Nation took an action that offended the Lord so that in 2011 He sent an earthquake to break open the secret chambers. Much, perhaps all, of the 1791 whiskey was lost. It took 32 months to repair the Monument but today it has reopened to the public.
On a warm dry day you can still smell the faint aroma of distilled spirits in the elevators of the Monument. This raises hopes that perhaps some whiskey remains stored deep in the obelisk. Perhaps someday we'll learn the truth of what happened to the nation's great reserve of fine distilled spirits.
And now you know the truth behind this grand American Memorial -=- DrStrange
President Washington received a vision from the Lord in 1791 who warned him that our great nation was going to suffer a period of suffering and depravation. He was directed to gather all the Whiskey in the land and store it against time of famine. So it was that the President gathered the might of America and sent it to Western Pennsylvania to gather and preserve this elixir for future generations of Americans. The Westerns resisted these efforts and thus began the Whiskey Rebellion.
With guidance from above, President Washington was able to secure the nation's government with limited loss of life and secure the whiskey for future needs. However, the President was forced to raise taxes to fund this military venture, a great sin. Washington was punished for this misdeed and was not allowed to see the completion of his quest.
Indeed, the nation itself had to wait 40 years for the next step in the prophecy during which time the British came and tried to steal this precious liquid. Angered by their inability to find the secret stores of whiskey, the British burned much of the US capital - but not the sacred resting place of this immortal drink.
Construction of the Washington Monument began with a design in 1840, based on Washington's vision for a sacred storage vessel for the Nation's Whiskey. Work on the actual monument began in 1848 and publicly halted from 1854 to 1877. But secretly these twenty years were used to create secret chambers inside the monument where the Whiskey gathered during the rebellion could be safely stored.
By completion in 1888, over four million gallons of Pennsylvania Whiskey were stored in granite and marble chambers and sealed against the ravages of time. These chambers were not breached until the 1920s when prohibition caused great suffering in the land. President Hoover authorized a draw down of Whiskey for the military and government use, but he drew down too little for the needs of WWI vets which precipitated the revolt of the "bonus army" in 1932 where 43,000 citizens marched on Washington DC. The revolt was put down and the Washington Monument's chambers were again sealed.
The Monument remained untouched for many years. However in 2008 the People of the Nation took an action that offended the Lord so that in 2011 He sent an earthquake to break open the secret chambers. Much, perhaps all, of the 1791 whiskey was lost. It took 32 months to repair the Monument but today it has reopened to the public.
On a warm dry day you can still smell the faint aroma of distilled spirits in the elevators of the Monument. This raises hopes that perhaps some whiskey remains stored deep in the obelisk. Perhaps someday we'll learn the truth of what happened to the nation's great reserve of fine distilled spirits.
And now you know the truth behind this grand American Memorial -=- DrStrange
