Appraisals

What Price for Independence? 

I hope you all got out and enjoyed some fireworks this past weekend. My family went down into our little historic town, not all that far north of where George Washington and his men wintered the year we almost lost it all, and sat with friends and neighbors on the side of the hill to watch the show. I thought about mentioning to my kids that these fireworks were real to the soldiers and civilians who fought during the Revolutionary War, and in every war since then; that they represent more than a good time with friends and family, but I didn’t.