 Because this, they go back to at age 23, 1750, George Washington, in a letter to his brother, said, quote, In the land of the living, by the miraculous care of Providence, there protracted me beyond all human expectations. For I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot underneath me, yet I am unhurt. Every officer died in that battle in the French-Indian War. So he always felt as though he was never going to get killed in battle. And that's the way he acted.