Organization extends legacy from Atlanta's 1996 Paralympic Games to the grass-roots level
Its identity is tied to the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, but Blaze-Sports America is much more than the legacy of that competition. Its reach stretches from Cairo, Ga., to Cairo, Egypt, and has less to do with Atlanta and winning medals and more to do with peace-building and helping people with disabilities to break boundaries.
BlazeSports is an Atlanta-based program launched by the U.S. Disabled Athletes Fund to bring community-based disabled sports opportunities to cities across the country
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For one new American, the Fourth of July had special meaning this year
What I remember most about my childhood summers is watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Every year, my father would crank up our secondhand, peach-colored station wagon, and we'd clatter out to a din of patriotic cheer. We would join the other cars idling in traffic, park in some impossibly small space, find a bench or a patch of grass, plop down and crane our necks skyward.
I never realized that, technically, Independence Day wasn't ours to celebrate. We were citizens of China, living in America on a student visa and the currency of hope
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