"R. D. Davis" wrote:
> 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.
Not the inner harbor of Baltimore. Geez, I live here and have never been.
I'm feeling ashamed and now will have to make a day trip of it. Ripken's
last year in the big leagues and I'm feeling guilty about Ft. McHenry
and having never seen it!
>
>
> 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.
>
Fireworks can legally be purchased in DC or VA.
>
> 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?
>
You sound like a Texan misplaced in the libberal state of MD. Go
west old man and be free...
Eric
>
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