Heads-up! For over 200, years people have celebrated with fireworks on July 4th in the United States. How did the combat veterans of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam deal with each and every July 4th celebration after they returned?
Hope they don’t go back into service. They’d be worthless under fire apparently.
It’s good to hear from the experts: you two must have served in combat to have such well-formed opinions.
On the other hand, there’s my experience. I served for 17 months in direct combat in Vietnam and I hated fireworks displays, at least the ones that included those damn aerial bombs.
You see what your lives would be like if, for a significant period of your lives you had to stare at the ground ahead of you intently to try to avoid getting blown apart or had to dread that first steel-door slam of a mortar round hitting near you. Worse, try to imagine what it would be like to be able to hear the screams mixed into the bang when someone near you was caught in the blast.
You spend decades diving under things when a blast catches you by surprise, ducking your head down into your shoulders if you’re more prepared.
I voluntarily committed myself to more combat even after being hit badly and nearly a year in the hospital rebuilding my body.
I never cheated my family out of their 4th of July fireworks but I hated how it felt.
But I’m sure that your experience was better than mine.
The guy who is president of this org is a pretty big liar, check out his record.
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