that would kill you. It would make my mission much more difficult to accomplish. No, Sir, I’m leaving as soon as I can get a chopper in here to take me out.
She handed Washington an IPhone. “When all your guests have arrived, turn this on, by pushing this button and then enter the number one. I’ll come back. Arcadia demonstrated by using the phone herself. A man’s figure appeared on the screen. “I’m ready for pickup.”
“We’ll be right there.”
“I don’t know how long it will take to assemble the men we need,” said Arcadia, “Please do it as expeditiously as possible.”
Moments later, the helicopter sat down on the space in front of the mansion. Arcadia bowed to Washington and said, “You can watch everything you’ve see today as many times as you like, just push start, thank you, Mr. Washington and May God Bless you in the name of Jesus Christ.”
With that, she hurried to the chopper and was gone in just a few seconds.
Good to his word, Washington wrote long letters to each of the people Arcadia had mentioned. He knew them all, of course, and he told them that an extraordinary event was unfolding, and that it was imperative that all of them come immediately, no matter what their circumstances.
Young Thomas Jefferson was the first to arrive, since he had the shortest distance to come from Monticello. He pestered Washington endlessly. Once he had seen the equipment that was still in Washington’s office, he insisted on seeing the video. Washington finally relented and Jefferson watched the entire program twice, from start to finish, before he commented.
“You have not said it, George, but in order for this magical equipment and all the information it contains to be here at all, would suggest that your visitor comes from the future.”
“To make it even more confounded,” said Washington, “All of this was delivered in an incredible flying machine by a tall, blond, and very attractive woman, named only Arcadia, who told me that she was here because of a divine vision from God.”
“Amazing,” said Jefferson “was there a hint of sorcery or dishonesty to what she said?”
“No,” said Washington, “she was very frank, incredibly sincere, and her speech was sprinkled with strange words and expressions of the type that would be normal progression for English if it were to come from the future.”
“And she invoked the name of God?”
“Several times and she swore an oath in the name of Christ that all she was saying was true. You’ve seen the devastation she says the United States of the year 2025 has suffered, and she was truly grieved over the loss of what she said was 150 million people. I can’t explain it, but I think I actually believe her entire story.”
“It was very wise to include a section of past history with names and dates that we can confirm by our own studies,” said Jefferson. “Some of these events are so obscure that I don’t recall them. I can however confirm them. It gives credence to all the future history that is presented on this remarkable apparatus.”
Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton arrived together three days later, having come from Philadelphia. It took John Adams an additional week to arrive, since he had to travel the farthest from Boston. He came in complaining. He was as obnoxious and as abrasive as Washington remembered him to be.
Washington showed the video to the three. He found that he was learning more each time he watched the future unfold and had to admit, there was certain credibility to it. Franklin immediately accepted the time travel story, and did everything he could to examine the equipment without actually damaging it.
Adams arrived late in the day, and the entire group watched the entire video together for the first time.
“Do you actually believe this story, Washington,” asked Adams?
“I have no real reason not to,” said Washington.
“A person from the future claiming
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