I wrote this exactly one year ago today in fear of what was coming with the Obama election and the Democrat majority rule in all branches of government. Add in all the radicals in academia and in the judiciary and what do we have? This is the year we must slow, and begin to reverse, some of these big government, socialistic moves to the left. If we do not, we will forever be remembered as the generation who lost our country as we know it.…

What Independence Day means to me:

My grandfather landed on Normandy Beach the day after D-Day. He fought for two months marching inland before getting shot outside of Paris. He was so seriously wounded he remained in a French hospital until 1946 when he…

On July 4, 1922 14 year old Cecelia saw her first fireworks display.

It was her second day in America, having arrived at Ellis Island two days earlier, only 14, but she had made it to America, a place where she believed the streets were paved with gold.

In a small box was every possession she owned; one change of clothing and photographs of her family.

Working any job available, she attended English school. She never stopped or slept and set her…