Able-bodied friends had raved to us about this business so off we went to check out it. We tasted Ultra Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oils and Balsamic Vinegars with dozens of available variations, from traditional EVOO's and vinegars to infused flavors.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. Something snollygoster George Santos lacks.
Service staff graciously answered all our questions promptly which made a good first impression
Did what they're in business to do
Has average prices, with cool products made of fresh ingredients that enriches life
Charged the prices posted
Delivered what they advertise
Place was clean and organized
Ambiance was professional
No one here offered to commit fraud to reward us, pay us or compensate us for posting 5 star reviews of this business
Owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a Military and Veterans Discount as a thank you to Veterans with a publicly disclosed daily Military Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population. That earned 'em another review star for going beyond what they're in business to do.
NOT disabled-friendly which lost 'em a review star. Not being disabled-friendly is more disabling on people with disabilities than their disabilities.
"Though his name is little known among Americans today," writes Erick Trickey for Smithsonian, "he created America's professional army."
February 1778, Baron Friedrich von Steuben arrived at Valley Forge, where Commander-in-Chief George Washington appointed him Inspector General of the camp and assigned Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens as his aides. Steuben immediately brought uniformity and professionalism to the American soldiers, who'd seen combat, but lacked military training to pose an effective threat to anyone. He started with training the ragtag American troops on basics -- meaning of orders, discipline, standing at attention, wielding a bayonet, teamwork, camaraderie -- and established standards for camp layouts and sanitation. He then developed a system of beginning, intermediate and advanced drill for the entire American Army and taught the Americans combat maneuvers that equipped them to rival anyone. Steuben's previous experience in the Prussian Army during the Seven Years' War prepared him to oversee and implement the military training the Americans so desperately needed, and by the end of the encampment at Valley Forge, America's Army had undergone a significant transformation, from ragtag and wearied recruits to an ordered and disciplined fighting force. Morale was now high.
Steuben gave American soldiers "the kind of training and understanding of tactics that made them able to stand toe to toe with the British," historian Larrie Ferreiro wrote in his book, "Brothers at Arms."
Steuben established system of Non-Commissioned Officers "NCOs" aka Sergeants and trained them who in turn drilled thousands more, creating an efficient system that "helped lead America to independence and laid the foundation of training that the Army continues to this day," according to NCO Journal, an official Army publication. Steuben's system of NCOs is still in use in all branches of the US Armed Forces. (today, May 3, is Air Force Sergeants Association Birthday)
Revitalized, reorganized and uniformly trained, America's Army just four months later decisively displayed their newfound professionalism at Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. Friedrich von Steuben was significant not only for reshaping America's Army, but for the dedication, endurance, pride, resilience, and survivability demonstrated by the Americans learned them from Steuben.
Friedrich von Steuben had quickly became one of Washington's most trusted advisors, eventually Serving as his Chief of Staff. Without Steuben's military genius, the American Army very might not have won America's War For Independence. Steuben was known by Washington to be gay, and Washington didn't care. Washington only judged people on their public life, and never their private life between equal consenting adults.
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. -- Eeyore
Washington's last act as Commander-in-Chief was to write Steuben a letter thanking him for his Service. December 23, 1783, "I wish to make use of this last moment of my public life, to signifie in the strongest terms my entire approbation of your conduct, and to express my sense of the obligations the public is under to you, for your faithful and meritorious services."
Washington later became the 1st US President. read more