So, as I type this, neighbors around me are letting off fireworks - and it's midnight.
This is, of course, a precursor to the holy hell of two-three days of airborne explosives - Independence Day which invariably means from 8pm thru 2am, major explosions all round. Whoopee...
I get the need to be 'patrotic' but when did we dehumanize ourselves and place our selfish zeal for purdy glitter in the sky above people for whom this is a full blown nightmare?
Not just for the folk who need sleep because they have to work the next day, but those with infants who are kept awake by this, those with pets that are terrified of the noise, those with nervous conditions and heart problems and, worst of all on this day of days, those who served our country faithfully in combat and suffer from PTSD.
Is this symptomatic to how little we seem to care about our neighbors?
Really seems to be a case of 'to heck with you all, I want my fireworks and I want them loud and late'.
So sad...
This is, of course, a precursor to the holy hell of two-three days of airborne explosives - Independence Day which invariably means from 8pm thru 2am, major explosions all round. Whoopee...
I get the need to be 'patrotic' but when did we dehumanize ourselves and place our selfish zeal for purdy glitter in the sky above people for whom this is a full blown nightmare?
Not just for the folk who need sleep because they have to work the next day, but those with infants who are kept awake by this, those with pets that are terrified of the noise, those with nervous conditions and heart problems and, worst of all on this day of days, those who served our country faithfully in combat and suffer from PTSD.
Is this symptomatic to how little we seem to care about our neighbors?
Really seems to be a case of 'to heck with you all, I want my fireworks and I want them loud and late'.
So sad...