[Chickensoup]

You know, my mother was a war bride and she didn’t like fireworks either.

But everyone is responsible for their own emotional content.

[Chainmail]

Doesn't have anything to do with not liking fireworks - I love them - it's more that a sudden and unexpected bang causes people with my experience to duck under something and feel a flash of stark fear, followed by several minutes of the shakes (and embarrassment).

I think that there is little comprehension among most us in this country of the effects of sustained combat and the fear that goes with it.