Fight For Your Parks

With shrinking budgets across our nation, one of the first things that is thought of to be cut is our parks.  What's interesting though, is that these cuts amount to only a tiny portion of the overall budgets' of cities, counties and states and the benefits that we lose when closing a park are in measurable.  Think about your childhood and where you went to play; think about some of the tougher times in our life and where you went to clear your head or to have a quiet cry; think about where you took your children to plan on the playground equipment; think about where you took your son to fish for the first time or where you had a family reunion or picnic.  I would bet most of your answers were a "park", whether a city, county, state or national park, I would bet we all have gone to one for memorable times in our lives.  Today now more than ever we need places to go.  In these tough times you may find the answers during a walk in the park, or at least, you had a break from the pressures of life.  Our parks are tonics for the mind, body and spirit of America.  So when you hear someone talking about closing parks to save money where you live, go ahead and fight!