Mayors column: Recognizing a resilient family
(World News USA)

As you read this, the Fourth of July will be long past, but I hope you have had a chance this month to reflect on the incredible gift of freedom. Some messages deserve to be shouted from the rooftops. This seems to me like one of them. At the Freedom Festival, I heard from a survivor of war and its aftermath, from a Utah-born astronaut and from a firefighter who descended into the rubble of 9/11, saving the lives of two police officers. Their stories helped me feel gratitude, patriotism, awe and respect. I was also deeply touched when the crowd at Stadium of Fire rose to its feet for Kaylyn Shinners, who lost her husband, Provo Police Officer Joseph Shinners, earlier this year. He was killed...