As You Watch/Hear the Illegal Fireworks..

markmarc
markmarc Posts: 2,309
edited July 2010 in The Clubhouse
A personal rant.

Gotta wonder how many of the idiots blowing off illegal fireworks can name the true symbolism of their actions. It is a recreation of the Battle of Fort McHenry, with the British warships at the gates of Baltimore Harbor laying siege to the fort and the American troops firing back. All the while Old Glory standing, fluttering and out of view of the smoke. After 24 hours of constant bombing, the British stopped and the citizens of Baltimore saw the flag still atop the pole.

Thankfully, Francis Scott Key while being held aboard a British ship was able to pen the immortal words. "Rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there!"
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    Great stuff! When I was in Baltimore Inner Harbor many, many, many times for the July 4th activities I would always visit Ft. McHenry. Great tour and a wonderful presentation on that historical event!
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited July 2010
    Great Bars Too !! hic :D
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    Thankfully I live ina state that doesn't treat its citizens like criminals, so fireworks AREN'T illegal.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited July 2010
    I'll be firing the AK47 tonight, celebrating.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2010
    Sherardp wrote: »
    I'll be firing the AK47 tonight, celebrating.

    I sure do miss that. I used to fire off the guns when I lived in WV...
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Great stuff! When I was in Baltimore Inner Harbor many, many, many times for the July 4th activities I would always visit Ft. McHenry. Great tour and a wonderful presentation on that historical event!

    I forgot to mention this. You could sit on a ferry boat on the water and watch the spectacular fireworks directly overhead as they fired them off from the barges on the water. Very, very awesome and temporarily deaf by the grand finale. I went there for years and years every 4th with my older son until recently.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Thankfully I live ina state that doesn't treat its citizens like criminals, so fireworks AREN'T illegal.

    Bob are you still referring to Taxachusetts? If so, I'm surprised.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Bob are you still referring to Taxachusetts? If so, I'm surprised.

    HAHA, no, I live in NH Joe; it's like the anti-Massachusetts. As they say in Edge of Darkness, "everything's illegal in Massachusetts." I don't think you can even have sparklers down there.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    Here's a picture of the stockpile of fireworks my buddy is getting ready to shoot off in Lionville, PA.

    [IMG][/img]fireworks.jpg
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    HAHA, no, I live in NH Joe; it's like the anti-Massachusetts. As they say in Edge of Darkness, "everything's illegal in Massachusetts." I don't think you can even have sparklers down there.

    Okay Bob, am I really going cookoo or didn't you live in Massachusetts before?

    Shoot having bad breath in Mass is illegal!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    I did, I moved north of the border like.... almost 3 years ago. Good memory buddy :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I did, I moved north of the border like.... almost 3 years ago. Good memory buddy :)

    Yeah man and did we go at it back then or what!?! Just goes to show how we here on CP can be at each other's throats at times and friends with great comraderie afterwards. Just like the old days when you had a dispute you went at it and when done got up and shook each other's hands. Good Stuff!!!:)
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  • TitaniumMan
    TitaniumMan Posts: 93
    edited July 2010
    Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

    Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,

    Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land

    Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.



    Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

    And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."

    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

    O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited July 2010
    Thanks Dad.......Army Lt.(ret) and at rest....
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,953
    edited July 2010
    Nothin' wrong with celebrating our independance day with some fireworks.

    Sad thing is, I saw a poll the other day, 1 in 4 people don't know who we won our freedom from. With some claiming places like China ,Japan , Russia...ya have to wonder what the heck is going on in our history classes. Sad...just sad.
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    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited July 2010
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    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited July 2010
    Such bad acting............


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