As I drove from Philadelphia to Harrisburg this weekend, I was reminded that the American experiment hasn’t always been easy – and was hard-won. My route took me past Valley Forge, where ill-supplied and exhausted troops of the Continental Army hunkered down for the winter. When they entered the encampment, the troops under Gen. George Washington were a band of loosely affiliated militias. When they emerged in the spring, they were a united fighting force and the epitome of American resolve.
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