Happy 4th of July!!

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable Independence Day! Additional things occurring on this date in history have been:

• The establishment of the US Military Academy at West Point in 1802
• Famous early American author, Nathaniel Hawethorne, was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804
• Cartoonist and illustrator, Rube Goldberg, was born in San Francisco, California in 1883
• Advice columnists Esther and Pauline Friedman, better known as Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, were born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1918
• Pulitzer Prize winning screenwriter and playwright, Neil Simon born in The Bronx, New York, in 1927
• And on this date in 1997, the Pathfinder space vehicle landed on Mars

Sometime today pause and give thanks... heartfelt thanks for all the ways you are blessed.

HAPPY 4TH!!