The Fourth of July: the one day every year in which Americans get to simulate the experience of living in a war-torn nation. On this one day, like every day in Chechnya, the former Yugoslavia, much of Africa and the Middle East, Americans get to feel what its like to have the explosions and lights of perpetual warfare around them. The explosions we hear as we take part in the festivities, should they be taken out of the context of a national holiday, would be quite frightening to most Americans.
Americans, by and large, have never experienced civil strife. They have never experienced the frightening explosion of a nearby building being struck by an errant mortar. They have never had to deal with the reality of the constant sound of explosions interfering in their everyday lives.
One day a year, we put up with the loud noises of fireworks well into the night. Cities deferentially allow fireworks enthusiasts to violate noise ordinances. America becomes a war zone. A kiddie war zone.
The bright and happy national tradition of symbolically reliving the Revolutionary War once a year gives Americans a(n extremely) basic understanding of what it is like to be in a war zone.
Most fail to recognize the meaning behind the sounds of the fireworks. To them, they are the sounds of fun, of a national holiday. To me, they are the sounds I am happy to not have to hear the other 364 days a year.
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That isn't exactly a libertarian viewpoint you have there. Rant against fireworks? Comon now... you had a good thing going w/ your thoughts and rationale about health care and drugs and I like to see more of that. You're not accomplishing anything w/ this anti-boomboom rubbish and you're likely alienating about 80% of your potential readers.
This isn't anti-boomboom rubbish, its me extrapolating on what fireworks make me feel, and it was supposed to come across as a good thing.
Every time I hear fireworks in the distance I think one thing: wow, I sure am happy to be living in America, a place where explosions in the distance don't have me running and ducking for cover. Any anti-American or anti-fireworks sentiment you got out of my post was a mere misinterpretation.
I never got the idea that this was anti-fireworks. I think it is good that we are reminded once in a while that our loud explosions in the night are that of joy.
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