Melancholy Paradise: An attack on one is an attack on all

Round Rock turned out, in all its Norman Rockwell glory, for the July 4, 2013, Independence Day parade through downtown.

Reporting for the Round Rock Leader – and just a sucker for all things Mayberry – the community cross-section unfolded in a feast for my eyes and ears.

Spectators, lining the route by the hundreds, saw colorful characters ranging from Maggie Moo to Uncle Sam. Plus beauty queens in…