Happy Birthday America

To All Our American Readers!

As we approach this July 4th holiday there are different emotions for most people, depending in part on where they are in their life’s journey and what is impacting their quality of life.

For everyone, the holiday can be a fun time, filled with activities on the lake, in backyards around the city and in our park at the Freedom Festival.

Fireworks, good food and fellowship are all a part of the celebration, not to mention in means a day off work for many.

But this year, just as the celebration begins, we hear that another middle Tennessee soldier has lost his life somewhere overseas in a place that just a few years ago some of us could not even spell — Afghanistan. [Continue]