Happy Fourth of July to you all. Let us celebrate our great country while we still have the freedom to do so. There are so many alarming things going on in the world today with unemployment and wars and higher prices and things that are just plain UN-American. It seems that our rights are slowly being torn away from us while we go on ignoring it and hoping that it will go away.

But let us remember our freedom and what it has cost our ancestors and those who preceded us; let us hold onto it as long as we can.

My children and grandchildren are going camping this week-end, as I am sure a lot of you are. I will be working this week-end, but I will still celebrate in my own quite way this great country of ours.

Happy Birthday America!!!