Today is a special day known by several names.
It is called, 'Independence Day', 'America's Birthday', or simply the '4th of July'. As a child it was a day for parades and fireworks. As an adult it is a day when I think of the freedoms that we all enjoy in this wonderful country. As a veteran, it is a day that I reflect upon the price that was paid for those freedoms. Our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence 223 years ago.