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and for five or six years it became my backyard playground.

I would follow animal tracks, fish the streams with my friends, and sled down Anthony

Wayne Hill in the winters.

We knew the log huts, the fortifications, Washington's headquarters, and even hidden caves in the heavily forested hills where Washington had hidden various stores of cannon and supplies in case of attack from the British, who were living it up in Philadelphia 30 miles away

while our colonial troops froze and starved through that hard winter of 1777-1778.

We lived in a neighborhood called Glen Hardy, the streets of which were named after the

heroes of that bleak winter. Names like Colonel DeWise Lane, Anthony Wayne Road, and Baron

von Steuben Road. From from Glen Hardy we would pull our sleds down Thomas Road and then start across the rolling fields of Valley Forge where Baron von Steuben had trained Washington soldiers, men who in the past months had gone up against

the most powerful army on earth at that time and lost.

Lost in New York and Long Island and lost at Brandywine, yet still they hung on.

They were farmers and patriots fighting for the cause of freedom, very few of them professional

soldiers. In the face of highly trained British troops they had broken and run.

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