Early Celebrators

In this time of heightened patriotism I hesitate to speak out against the fireworks, and indeed I do not have anything negative to say about celebrating our independence with a display of fireworks both at home and for the general public. However, it is quite excessive to have fireworks go off in my neighborhood all week. I am more than willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I will assume we have folks who will celebrate our independence for a week or more. I still have room to air out a complaint, leveled at those who decide to light off these "fireworks" around Midnight. I have to say "fireworks" for most of these sound more like demolition charges than pretty displays of light. For the past week we have heard loud booms of explosions late in the evening, and last night it woke me up just as I was falling asleep.

I can understand people wanting to celebrate. I too want to celebrate, when it is time. July hat not even arrived and people are making noise, most of which can be easily ignored during the early evening, but when it creeps into the later parts of the night when I should be asleep due to morning duties. . . . Please, feel free to celebrate our independence, but don't annoy your fellow Americans by celebrating early and when they are asleep (if you can call setting of M-80's celebrating).