"Fireworks" – The News Desk

Happy 4th of July, RedStaters! It’s certainly a much happier time for Los Angeles residents than it was in 2020, thankfully. The Golden State, like many other places, was gripped by COVID hysteria and locked down by hysterical health officials and government authorities. People drove around in their cars by themselves with masks on—fending off catching the Wuhan Flu from invisible people, presumably—parks and beaches were closed, folks were terrified of one another, and many schools were shuttered for a full year and a half. To this day, many people who didn’t live in places like California don’t quite understand the true insanity of what we endured. For Independence Day in ’20, firework displays were canceled and we were told to stay home and “socially isolate.” Proving, however, that ...

In my youth, Memorial Day seemed a bigger deal than July 4th. Perhaps because I had a relative who sacrificed in World War II, going down in a Spitfire over Dunkirk. Back then, the May holiday was called Decoration Day in the U.S., a tradition that began after the Civil War when, first, Southern women and then their Union sisters began decorating the shallow graves of soldiers, regardless of the army they served. Abraham Lincoln noticed and declared May 30 Decoration Day (whatever day of the week that was, three-day weekend or not). July 4th did, however, have fireworks, a major attraction to my eyes and ears. My rural Ohio town was home to two major fireworks makers. So, supplies were no problem. Local volunteer firefighters performed the risky business of setting up the huge mortars,...

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