Guns and fireworks

[TheGrey]

Our neighborhood has a lot of vets with PTSD. My neighbor across the street is a Khe Sanh vet, and as it gets closer to the 4th, he looks more and more haggard because of the idiots that are setting off very LOUD fireworks, right in people's back yards. Our yards are smaller than 1/4 acre, and there's always debris from the noisy things. I'm very glad it's been so wet this year, because previous years have had small grass fires stat from people's carelessness.

That's not even taking the pets into consideration, either.

I remember it being different when growing up- but we always went with a whole group of neighborhood kids and adults down to the gravel pit and set things off.

I'm torn. Yay, Independance Day! But my heart goes out to the people suffering from PTSD. :/