Writing from Cavite El Viejo in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, a 19 year old Corporal wrote his sister: "What will I do if I should have to change to a climate of 6 degrees below? Do you think I could be able to stand it after coming from a country where I doubt if it ever went below 40 degrees? Don't imagine for a minute that us soldiers care for 1/4 of the cold. That you are having there now (in March I mean) our blood is so thin...
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