To all caregivers who have to work today Thank you

This is for the people who have to work because people's lives depend on you.  Firefighters, Police Officers,  doctors, nurses, Nurses Aides, Hospital workers and people like me Resident Advisors in Group homes.

I work in a group home and I often have to work Holidays because we are a 24 hour program and our Consumers need us.

I'm lucky that because our program seeks to give our Consumers a normal live we cook out, go to parks, or to Keystone the homemade beach. We get to enjoy ourselves with people we care about.

I think about the police officers who keep everyone safe. Everyone who works in a hospital or Nursing homes caring for and comforting the sick and elderly. I've been in and out of the hospital many times and have seen all the hard work nurses and aides do from calming nervous patients to sitting by the bedside of a dying person.

I remember last October when a test was ordered for an MRI on my heart and I would not be given a sedative. A young Resident offered to go with me and she did.  I will never forget that.

I am also thinking of the Soldiers who are serving overseas in the war.  They are millions of miles away from their families and loved ones and like Police Officers their lives are in danger.

I'm not including people who work in stores because really the stores and businesses can close.

Happy Fourth of July to all Americans.