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This weekend, millions of Americans will celebrate our nation’s birthday by watching public fireworks spectaculars, either in person on television. We didn’t have TV when I was growing up one of 10 children in a Pennsylvania mining town, but that didn’t stop us from having fireworks displays that were pretty spectacular in my young eyes. My little town, Archbald, couldn’t afford a fireworks show, so my family made our own.
Hoping to visit Lady Liberty's crown when it reopens July 4? Dream on.
The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.
Lady Liberty's welcome was sorely missing from the drab immigration office where Argentine architect Rodolfo Acevedo started his U.S. citizenship application in the early 1990s.
Not everyone is directly affected by the latest injustices or is a victim of a crime but it is impossible not to be touched in some way by the absurdities and atrocities we see all around us everyday. Who is not made sad just hearing of these things?
The battle between Democratic hopefuls Obama and Clinton has held the spotlight in American politics for the past year and has been upstaged only slightly by the occasional antics of a few divas like Hilton, Madonna or Aguilera.
This picture was taken recently on a family trip to New York City. It is a picture of my son looking at the Statue of Liberty from a distance. I started to explain to him the significance of the statue and what it symbolizes for our country.
Reflections: I miss Lady LibertyTom Barnett: Old Lady Liberty's got a new job now representing national fear, and it saddens me deeply to see her image perverted that way.
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