On November 11th each year we pause to honor our nation’s veterans. In our home, like so many others in North Carolina, pictures of family members who served line our shelves — two fathers, three uncles, cousins, a brother-in-law, and my grandfather — are among them. My 18-year-old grandfather had fought in France in WWI a young NC farm...
It has been a long time since I lived on Hillock Drive, which runs off North Hills Drive near Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh. My parents moved there with their two children, Joy and Brad, in 1971. I came along two years later as, my mom says, their “postscript.” It was a great, safe neighborhood to grow up in, and I spent my entire...
Free societies require real sacrifice, which might explain why our culture struggles to cultivate and embody freedom today.
