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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo all the teabaggers complaining about the weather in DC today, 2 words:
VALLEY FORGE!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)For ousting our current government, aren't they?
Great post!
bvf
(6,604 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)in 2001
and this in 2005?
I believe the weather was bad on both days...
Oh, and then this in 2009?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)who are claiming they didn't go because it was raining in Virginia.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)As if someone would travel hundreds or thousands of miles to topple a government and be stymied by rain?
Yeah ... that's the kind of militia that the founders envisioned.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)by simply throwing a jug of corn whiskey into the middle of the battle field, and then watched them fight each other for it.
nilram
(2,888 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Enjoyed every minute of it.
However, rain is a different story- they might melt!
spanone
(135,846 posts)go home
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)were their wittle toes cold??
Archae
(46,337 posts)Weather records from that time and area say it was warmer than normal for that time of year.
Just more propaganda, like the painting showing Washington in a boat standing up while crossing the Delaware.
Or the cherry tree.
Or the popular but bogus painting of all those guys signing the Declaration together on July 4th.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . that it was typically (for southeast PA in Winter) wet and damp, and the fact that the enlisted men in the Continental Army were ill-fed and ill-clothed for the weather they faced, and were housed in cramped, dank, windowless quarters with poor ventilation. There were outbreaks of Typhoid, typhus, smallpox, dysentery, and pneumonia, and nearly 2,500 men died by the end of that Winter as a result. And of course, many of these men were conscripts who had been pressed into service against their will in the first place. Washington and his officers, however, endured no such hardship.
Howard Zinn, in his "People's History of the United States," notes historian Edmund Morgan's characterization of the Revolution:
To be sure, the story of Valley Forge was likely propagandized over the years, but the hardships endured by the lower ranking soldiers were quite real, and we shouldn't lose sight of that. (Nor should we lose sight of the fact that then, as now, war plans were mostly hatched by a wealthy, ruling elite, and the bulk of the sacrifice was borne by the powerless, largely even voiceless, folks from the lower economic strata.)
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)or
Rain Jacket
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)aggiesal
(8,919 posts)alsame
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mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speakers desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
This person is breaking the law
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)right here on DU. In fact there were probably DUers who were out there in the Wisconsin winter in 2010/2011. I don't think a little weather stops dedicated people.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)Most of them don't have a clue what the real tea party was about.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I knew about the weather well before I knew about this silly little gathering...
Two more words, still: Dumb Idea!
The Weather Channel is a librul conspiracy because they push that Climate Change crap and hide the truth about HAARP. Benghazi.