Today we pause celebrate freedom and to honor those who gave their “Lives, … Fortunes, and … sacred Honor,” to help form the great country we have today.    Since that Independence Day, many others have also given everything they had in protecting and defending our freedoms. I am grateful for them.  We honor and remember [...]

Today I’m attending another day of classes in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Institute of Historical and Genealogical Research.  It’s Flag Day all across the United States.  I love this flag. I inherited this trait from my father.  He was piloting a B-17 bomber over Germany during World War II, shot down, captured by the Germans, [...]