Celebrate Freedom

Once I heard that MLB was bringing a baseball game to Fort Bragg I tried to see about tickets but quickly once I heard it was for military only I knew this was a Sunday baseball game I would watch every pitch.  I also attended the Rocky Mount fireworks so that required taping from the point of the ceremonial first pitch in the pregame show until the last pitch of the game.

We are a country of the free.  From 1776 until today people from all over the world want to be a part of what we have this thing called freedom.  Ever since Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Congress on July 4th 1776 and to the public on July 8th we have defended our land twice against Britian, fought among ourselves almost 90 years later.  Sent our troops into two wars that were suppose to end all wars.  Seems just in the last 50 years our troops have been all over the world in the name of freedom.

The first time ever an official major league game has been played in North Carolina.  It took place on Tar Heel soil called Fort Bragg which is home to the largest military Post in the world.  Pat and I spent 22 months in Fayetteville and my favorite thing to do was ride on post to Sicily Drop Zone
And watch troops jump as they prepared for what ever they would be called to do.  I have rode by the golf course which was the ball field used last night. That was during a time when there was no gates on post but once 9/11 the world has changed.

I hope you saw the pregame from the ceremonial first pitch to the National Anthem.  If you didn't have a lump in your throat you must not be an American.  Just four months ago the forgotten Post Golf course was turn into a baseball stadium for a night.  All the world was able to see what Fort Bragg means to the world.

If nothing else came from this game it surely told you what America is all about.  A forgotten piece of property in about 120 days was turned into something the entire world could see that America when we put our minds to it we can do almost anything.  It happened right here in our back yard.

We have so many things  wrong with the direction that our country heads at times.  Yet when we want to we can show how great as a nation we can be.  Have a happy and safe 4th.  Still have fireworks tonight at Englewood.  Don't know of too much more can top Sunday night.

God Bless America.