The fourth of July is a special time for people to picnic and celebrate family in the United States. Everywhere you go, there are fireworks in the evening. I love watching fireworks. I love the rumble and bang. I love feeling the earth shake. I just love fireworks!

My Dad, on the other hand, hates fireworks. He doesn't want to be anywhere near them. He doesn't want to hear them or see them. Yet you wouldn't blame him at all because he has experienced war - the Korean War. After what he has experienced, I suspect that I wouldn't want to see or hear fireworks either...I would have seen and heard them in a more frightening, life-changing form that I would never want to experience again.

Ah, fireworks!