During my long weekend here in Houston, I met up with some good friends from back home and went to a dueling piano bar – freaking awesome.
The whole night was great of course, but perhaps my favorite moment of the evening was when the band had all our US service men + women up on stage and the whole bar sang “God Bless the USA.”
Now I’m not trying to be emo with this post, but I think that because we are so fortunate, it’s sometimes easy to forget all that we have AND to thank those who have allowed us to have/maintain this freedom. Of course nothing is perfect and we certainly have things to work on, but all in all we are extremely privileged to live in this country and to have such selfless men/women/families/husbands/wives/siblings/children who have made major sacrifices to defend and protect our country and our freedom:
