On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> Imagine having a neighbor kid hear "Star Spangled Banner" and ask "what song
> is that?" - and he went to a PRIVATE school.
Wow! It sounds as though that boy's parents need to get him enrolled
in a tour of Ft. McHenry! ...if they know what that is, of course.
It seems so strange for it to be so quiet on the 4th these days. I wonder
if other parts of the US are as quiet as it is here in this suburb of
Maryland.
Back when I was a kid, kids used to be running around shooting off cap
guns (I guess they're illegal now, thanks to the blasted tyranical
politically correct politicians) and lighting firecrackersd and M80s,
then, have we'd a cook-out followed by some marshmallow roasting and a
watermellon seed-spitting contest/battle, which was followed later on
in the evening with our own fireworks... fountains, exploding tanks,
bottle-rockets, whistling rockets, and other small pyrotechnic
displays such as pin-wheels, etc. :-)
Of course, even back then it was marginally illegal here in Maryland;
we had to either have fireworks brought back from someplace like South
Carolina or else drive out west to where Maryland, Virgiana and West
Virginia meet and look for small stores in Virginia just over the
border that were selling the fireworks.
Did you ever think about what the real reason for the personal
fireworks bans might be? Most likely it's not about safety---after
all sparklers, which are legal, are rather dangerous; the real reason
for the bans being as follows: anything that goes boom might give
people bad ideas as to what they can do, and thus make them think more
vividly about the revolution, tyrannical, tax-hungry and corrupt
politicians, and certain words of Thomas Jefferson about an uprising
every so often to keep this a free nation. Such thoughts ought not be
thunk by good little citizens, what?
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Received on Wed Jul 04 2001 - 13:59:50 BST