How we were, and now are

As the winter of 1777-78 approached, what was left of George Washington’s bedragged continentals took refuge at Valley Forge to face disease, hunger, cold and privation, and wait and wait for Congress to find the means to resupply its much diminished ranks. It would be a long wait. (Congresses don’t seem to have changed much when it comes to funding an adequate defense.)

And yet those Americans hung on until, preposterous as it had seemed,they ended years of defeats and retreats in their war against the mightiest empire in the world by emerging victorious. And America had it own free and independent republic.

Yesterday the good people who were manning the polls where we voted in Little Rock’s local bond election to restore and renew historic old Robinson Auditorium said they had expected voter turnout to be low early in the day. Why? Because of the few remains of last week’s ice storm.

Editorial, Pages 16 on 12/11/2013

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