Who are these morons that write this crap. Doesn’t this idiot know that the reason alcohol was invented was to reintegrate vets?
They did it last year too.
It’s as if we didn’t have vets for the last 240 years or so.
So what is this really about?
We all know don’t we. They are trying to destroy our complete culture from top to bottom.
And last year too.
BIG TIME.....heard today people talking about “fireworks pollution”...
I saw a sign in somebody’s front yard that said, “A Veteran Lives Here, Please be Polite With Fireworks”. It did not generate a great deal of sympathy in me, and I don’t like fireworks myself.
Our three sons did combined 5 tours with USMC in Iraq. None of them is very fond of fireworks, even after 8 years now, as far as the smaller, neighborhood explosives that you hear but do not see (they are okay with the big light shows). They hope that the “celebration” comes and goes quickly.
My dad had a friend that was in the Navy during the Pearl Harbor attack.
The guy used to really go off during the 4th with all the fireworks for a number of years after the war.
My dad said “Gene” was running away from an explosion during the attack and looked to see the man next to him was running without most if his head just before he went down. Horrible memory I’m sure.
Served for 20 years with several combat tours.
I wear ear plugs on the 4th.
Our dogs have been going crazy and we have to give them their “puppy downers” every night, just to keep them calm.
I'm sure that many vets with PTSD have made plans to be somewhere quiet on the 4th, but you can't go someplace quiet every night for the two weeks prior and two weeks after the 4th.
Remember, it's the unplanned, unexpected, bangs and booms that trigger PTSD episodes. Just my $0.02 worth.
I got to agree with her back from WW II days. It went away slowly but it was not a big deal more of an annoyance.
Drama. Pure drama “look at me” BS. You might jump outta your skin, if the experience is recent you might even hit the deck.
But a lot of this is hype.
But no, we don’t use sensitivity with fireworks. Im even seeing signs now in this victim culture about no fireworks cause a vet lives on the block. Ridiculous.
Some guy with a Vietnam veterans hat on told me that because I saw a lot of combat in that theater that I obviously have PTSD and that I should bilk the system like him. I took the kinder route to telling him that he’s nuts and that Vietnam had nothing to do with that. He was obviously a scammer before he ever got over there.
If one comes back from war physically intact, then he or she should thank God. This is now and that was then. This is here and that was there. We should get on with trying to save our country. Not take it for a ride.
For crying out-loud. Does this crap ever stop.
be careful. I think KTHV is a gannett publication....and VERY liberal.
I can’t speak to the war-fireworks connection. I can say that I was in a room where a man was shot and killed back in the early ‘70s. For a few years after that, having a balloon pop unexpectedly nearby would freak me out. Knowing that, I can understand how vets could have a problem during fireworks.
Perpetuating the myth of the deranged Veteran
How is we have had well over 200 Independence Day celebrations with fireworks, each including Combat Veterans from various wars and somehow we managed to survive with causing major catastrophe?
Once again, Veterans are being used as pawns for someones agenda
Our dog doesn’t like fireworks either. Guess I’ll call PETA.
This is mostly BS. Fireworks don’t concern most of us vets at all. It’s the occasional unexpected bangs/booms that trigger a flinch reaction. But that happens to most people anyhow.
It’s why I LOVE fireworks, it’s the sound of freedom.
Now at 2am some night in January, expect return fire.
Rommel’s law.