Happy Independence Day. This is the perfect day to tell those you love and adore how grateful we all are to live in a nation like ours. Everytime I travel abroad I look forward to returning home to the freedoms we enjoy. I feel as if being born in the USA was winning the lottery. Everything else in life can be relatively easy. I don't have to hunt for food, shelter, water or get exiled because of a civil war between tribal leaders. I can speak my mind and not be jailed. I can read newspapers that print ideas I don't agree with or our contradictory to my thinking. I can sing at the top of my lungs in the street.

Let freedom ring!