BILL BLOG Monday, April 20, 2026 Monday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville, where the high will be just 73 today. THE WEEKEND Quite the weekend in Anna, Illinois, with Freedom Sings USA. Saturday morning, our guests treated our group of songwriters to a free breakfast inside the old gymnasium at the old High School we are staying in, which has been converted into a very cool Inn. It does remind me a bit of the old High School that I attended in Elsberry, Missouri, which was a long time ago. This one, they preserved. They put me in the old music-arts room of the High School, complete with the chalkboard in front of my bed, a small record player, an old Cathedral radio, and some 45 RPM records. Talk about a throwback! OUR VETERANS My veteran was Bob Caracker this trip. Bob is from Anna, Illinois. Born and raised, still here with his wife after all these years. Bob went to Vietnam. He remembers the day his draft let...