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2014-12-26 -Land of the Free

62nd re-enactment of George Washington and his troop's Delaware River crossing

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#1 And With GOD, by GOD, For GOD, brought GOD the finest Present EVER.

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#2 Somewhere in the reptilian part of every good 'Murican's brain is a plan for a brutal counter attack, out of a howling snow storm on a feast day, killing the enemy while they sleep.

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#3 "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." Gen. James Mattis (Ret.) - USMC

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#5 The story (Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer) is full of twists and turns, of contingent moments when events seemed likely to move in one direction but then swung in another; when leaders made key choices between two or more alternatives. The storm on December 25-26 delayed the crossing so long that Washington almost called off the whole operations. But the same storm masked the Americans' approach to Trenton and curtailed the normal alert patrolling of the Hessians (Fisher disposes of the old canard that the Hessians were sleeping off a Christmas drunk). A hard freeze on the night of January 2-3 made passable the road taken by the Americans from Trenton to Princeton that had been knee deep in mud the previous day. Many other contingencies large and small await the reader of this dramatic story.

Excerpt from Editor's (James M. McPherson) Notes

Fischer, excerpt about the painting:
"The painting is familiar to us in a general way, but when we look again its details take us by surprise. Washington's small boat is crowded with thirteen men. Their dress tells us that they are soldiers from many parts of America, and each of them has a story that is revealed by a few strokes of the artist's brush. One man wears the short tarpaulin jacked of a New England seaman; we look again and discover that he is of African descent. Another is a recent Scottish immigrant, still wearing his Balmoral bonnet. A Third is an androgynous figure in a loose red shirt, maybe a woman in man's clothing, pulling an oar.

The book is simply amazing. IMHO it reads like an action movie, but at the end I realized I had learned a ton.

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