[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
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