Here's to all the heroes out there that no one thinks about on this day.



I come from a desert. I don't live in one now - Louisiana is beautiful and lush, blessed with a great deal of rain - frequently too much, such as during Katrina. But for much of my youth I lived in a desert in California. The Fourth of July meant fire. Not just fireworks, but fire - often uncontrolled. As kids we couldn't understand why the laws were so strict. We couldn't buy fireworks until one week before the… Continue