Happy Independence Day

Hope everyone had a good Fourth. I headed down to Ditto Landing this evening for the big fireworks show on the Tennessee River. It's the first time they've done it down there, and I hope it won't be the last. It was a great show in a beautiful location, although next year, they really need to do a better job directing traffic after everything's over.

I shouldn't complain too much, though. If there's one thing to remember on the Fourth of July, it's that the Founding Fathers and the patriots they led to victory in the Revolution endured greater hardships than most of us care to imagine in order to win our nation's independence and secure liberty for themselves and their posterity. We are forever indebted to the founding generation for that, and the least we could do in return is to make sure that the generations of Americans to come are taught to appreciate that great inheritance and to remember just how it came to be.