Experience the American dream with today’s Patriot of the Past interview. I’m your host, John Gillespie.
It’s January 27, 1777. I’m at General Washington’s winter quarters at Valley Forge. Martha Washington is with her husband.
JG: “Martha, why are you here in such deplorable conditions?”
MW: “Mr. GilIespie, this has been the coldest winter of my recollection. The soldiers are freezing, starving, and sick. The General is not getting the supplies he has requested over and over. I am here to help my husband in any way I can for the cause of freedom.”
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John and Jan Gillespie are the founders of the Rawhide Boys’ Ranch; they have fostered 351 teenagers and wrote the book Our 351 Sons; they have also assisted numerous churches in developing youth programs and expanding their total church ministries. After running for U.S. Senate, John founded 1776 American Dream, which exists to demonstrate the vision of our founding fathers and help our generation of youth passionately embrace those values.
