arnold's tavern on the green in morristown. there's a sign there for it as you know if you've been there, unfortunately arnold's tavern broke down in 1918 in a fire. washington originally had five eighths or secretaries. secretaries were probably doing most of the writing kind of thing but aides were doing writing but there's no proof of this but my assumption would be that when washington was distinguishing between a secretary and an aide, the aid might have more varied activities. with the secretaries can probably stay back at headquarters. but and that's probably how the labor split up. most of the time there were seven. could you imagine seven of them sleeping or sitting in the same room. it must have been an incredible challenge for all of them. the typical task as i mentioned was writing copy or letters for washington. copious is an understatement. copious amounts of writing in letters. they were often dictated by washington to his aides including hamilton. two so now i just will go and get a refresher, so you have some a

presentations on espionage and the revolution to such groups as the north jersey revolutionary group in morristown and has been here before in 2017 with another wonderful presentation. the summit old guard, the francis tavern museum in atlantic city and the fbi's new york office. the mr. cregeau is a longtime resident of southern new jersey. he and his wife who is here today in the front, longtime re-enactors and they own two houses in connecticut dating from 1765. one belonged to a private in the war and the other belonged to three brothers, each of whom became generals as well as owners of the home in succession so without further adieu, damien cregeau. >> thank you. >> wonderful to have all of you here todayism was joking earlier we have our flanking maneuvers, left and right flank in our adjoining rooms, much like the battle of monmouth, so wonderful to have everyone packed into our room that meets the 18th century converging with the 21st century. we can be high tech about this, and i feel much the same as does my wife because i've been poet a longtime re-enactor. you can see me there dressed

now, another interesting thing speaking of triptics are the three officers standing on morristown green. we're talking about this statue put up not long ago on the green. it represents lafayette standing on the left. the 5'7" hamilton in the middle and the ever so tall giraffe like george washington on the right. was george 6'3", probably not. he was probably more like 6'1" like myself. there's been some new scholarship on his height. okay? now, one of the things that gets overlooked is alexander hamilton's provisions mission into philadelphia. this is quite interesting and it gets overva overshadowed. you have to feed mars. you must feed it, especially as they're about to go into winter encampment at valley forge. it's late september '77 and hamilton is sent by washington with other officers to go on horseback and go into downtown philadelphia and gather as many horses, general supplies you can think of food basically, clothing, and blankets in the city of philadelphia. why? because they know they're going to lose the city to british. they decided they're not going to put a fight in th

charles: shanksville tomorrow and 27, 28 eastern morristown september 5 and then follow the route your brother took through the brooklyn tunnel that takes you to the freedom tower i want to know what you are going to think, the light is going to hit you and you will seek this amazing magnificent building and think about all the sacrifice. what you think you are going to be fuming? >> i'll be thinking of my brothers but also the other 343 firefighters who ran into the north or south tower up those stairs along with police officers and they were saving lives, willing to give up their own to save their lives. that's what we are all about, to honor these great heroes and many of them who die for us every day still die for us, police officers and firefighters and we better be there to take care of them as a country just like we better be there to take care of almost 7000 families, 7059 to be exact. they've given their life to the country since the war 20 years ago. charles: with that in mind, i've got a minute to go but i want to ask about your thoughts on what's happening in afghanistan, t

first up, happy 100th birthday to laura arlene gipp from morristown, new jersey never leaves home without her set of pearls. everett minard, 100 years old, known as grandpa boots avid musician, 100 years old married to the love of his life for more than 50 years happy 100th birthday to june diggs, a cross-country traveler from harrisburg, pa, who says the secret to longevity is a little chocolate candy naporano1 that's what we call craig. francis naporano from new jersey is also 100. her family says francis is the essence of warmth, lovshgs and compassion elizabeth worked at the local history museum for more than four decades and happy 100th birthday to cecil smith, a football fan. he's from new mexico his secret to longevity says socializing with the ladies. >> oh. >> oh, well. >> i love that >> reminder to you, if you want the best moments from the show and exclusive content you won't find anywhere else, tune into our streaming show, "today in 30." catch it at 1:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00 today.com. >>> coming up, hoda and jenna have some perfect outdoor games. end of summer fun. >> a deej