“It is December. It is New England. What is the deal here?”
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I agree——and still 11 degrees where I am.
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It was 2 below this morning, but...we are such wimps! I heard it was 36 below zero in Minnesota!
I hear about this, and I think of our Marines, a single division surrounded by 10 divisions of Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea in 1950, with temperatures at 35 below zero, and a wind chill that took it down to around 70 below zero...and I thought...how did they do that? How did they defeat them, outnumbered 10-1, in weather like that? How?
And then you find out that some of those exact same Marines, only five years or so before, had been fighting under conditions on Peleliu in the Pacific, with no water, in temperatures that got as high as 115 degrees, and you think...man, talk about being dealt really bad hands.