Good afternoon readers.  I wont make this post drag on and on and on.  My words will be short and sweet.  Enjoy the food, fireworks, and time with loved ones today, but please don’t forget the price for our celebration.  The World Cup is happening right now.  As an American citizen, it does not matter if you rooted for Team USA or not.  What matters is that you, me, all of us appreciate the freedoms we are blessed to enjoy in this country as citizens.  Unfortunately, those freedoms were not free when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and they are not free now.  There are brave men and women  fighting on our behalf.  Remember those American heroes and celebrate to the fullest.  Happy Independence Day!!

Stay patriotic readers!

– Lauren Michele

“And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave” – “Star Spangled Banner”, Francis Scott Key