National Events & Holidays

Blessed is the Nation

The liberties Americans enjoy are unsurpassed and I am frequently drawn to think of how these great freedoms came to be. Why is our nation so blessed with freedom and wealth while so many other countries are ruled under the hand of tyrannical dictators or financially impoverished? From the earliest days of our country’s formation, [...]

The Un-Civil War

On April 12, 1861 the first shots of the Civil War rang out at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Four years later, the war that was expected to last only a few short months finally came to an end. But was it a success or was it a failure? Perhaps we could call it a “successful [...]