Really and truly every month should be Americanism Month. Since 9/11 things are different. The community has more sons and daughters serving in the military and they are more aware of the sacrifice of that service.

We put the flags on the poles. We don't do the individual flags.

I was on a troop transport that carried Army troops from New York to Germany. I know how cold the Atlantic Ocean can get. While I was reading that, I could feel the cold winds blow.

It's about how a single father struggles to bring up his two sons, ... And it's that kind of time when the oldest son announces kind of out of the blue that not only is he leaving home, but he's leaving the state. And he doesn't really have a clear explanation why, other than he wants to live his own life. And the father cannot wrap his head around like what's wrong with here.

We recognize how important mining is to this community, and it's definitely not our goal to shut it down.

For decades now, the scientific and medical community have said that sexual orientation is an immutable trait, what some of us might call a gift from God.