Winter Warriors: Some Lessons From Valley Forge

Winter Warriors: Some Lessons From Valley Forge
George Washington missed Gen. Potter during the winter at Valley Forge. “Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge,” 1907, by John Ward Dunsmore. Public domain
Jeff Minick
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Christmas 2022 will be long remembered for the savage winter storm that struck much of the United States.

Buffalo, New York, saw four feet of snow and deadly low temperatures. A friend in Minneapolis-St. Paul told me that the weather service there once cheerily reported that the temperature would climb to 6 degrees the following day. Cities and towns around the nation suffered power outages and broken water lines.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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