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Description: Personal Blog Highlighting Adventures in the Greater Raleigh Parks, Playgrounds & Greenways
Personal Blog Highlighting Adventures in the Greater Raleigh Parks, Playgrounds & Greenways
My youngest daughter describes a warmness she feels in her heart in the days leading up to visits with family. That’s a similar feeling I experience every time I stand, hand over my heart, for the national anthem at a sporting event, watch a video of a military parent surprising their family with an early homecoming, or listen to Lee Greenwood’s “I’m Proud to be an American” song. Maybe my strong patriotism comes from having vivid 5th grade memories of writing to Desert Storm troops (I still have those lett
Last year on Veterans Day I brought my girls to the Veterans Freedom Park in Cary, NC. I’ve passed by this park dozens of times over the years and finally visited last year. Veterans Freedom Park is located at 1517 N Harrison Ave in Cary . It contains a 90-foot Freedom Tower spire in the middle of a circular path with the five seals of the US armed forces and benches for reflection. Before walking around the tower we slowly walked along the outside of the memorial, taking in the plaques, admiring the milita
The Raleigh Naturalist | Nature lore and wildlife in Raleigh and beyond by John Dancy-Jones, a Raleigh native. All contents copy