Who the f shoots off fireworks on Memorial Day?

[Danmel]

My neighborhood sounds like a battlefield.
WTF is wrong with people. Memorial Day is NOT a celebration.
I fear for the future.

[hlthe2b]

1. I know. My sister in Atlanta was just complaining about that same thing...

Given our wildfire risks in Colorado, I damned well better not hear any. Police will come out and ticket because it is a big damned deal.

[ITAL]

2. I know Kansas City has a big event with fireworks

To wit.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article315862688.html


But yeah, it's kinda weird.

[Danmel]

3. It's supposed to be solemn

Only funeral i know of with fireworks was Charlie Kirk, so there's that.

[Skittles]

4. MAGAts

zero critical thinking skills

[Attilatheblond]

6. Zero cultural awarenss or knowledge of history

In my old age, I am learning how to hate people.

[Attilatheblond]

5. Saw fireworks for sale in the Safeway last week & thought WTF?

Over a month before July 4 and Arizona is getting constant fire weather warnings. Memorial Day is a day for reflection on sacrifice, not 'hey, dudes, let's par-TAE!'

[artemisia1]

7. I remember a fireworks display (official, run by local govt.) sometime in the early-1970's at an organized picnic

celebrating Memoria Day. The day's events had march and car parade by VFW's, including some from WW1.

[Iris]

17. Before we understood PTSD

[yourout]

8. Someone without a dog.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. We had fireworks last night

Scared my dog. There better not be any tonight.

[intheflow]

12. Or an autistic kid.

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. My older dog never used to be bothered

by fireworks or thunder. About 5-6 years ago, she started being scared. Now she's 15 and in the last four years I can barely get her to step outside to go potty. I have to put her in the interior bathroom, take a noisy fan in there and turn on the radio. That's where she stays in a storm and July 4th.

My soon-to-be 3 year old mutt doesn't yet give a damn about loud noises. Maybe because she's usually the loudest one around.

[Just Jerome]

15. And some cats, too

Ours hides under the bed.

[Aviation Pro]

10. Fucking morons

That’s who.

[intheflow]

11. As I read this, one went off in my hood.

I’m hoping it’s dumb kids and not some drunk MAGA jerk celebrating warfare like his HEro, Whiskey Pete.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Tacky and inappropriate

I think decades of treating Memorial Day as a day for sales on everything from mattresses to cars to appliances has beaten down people's memories of what the holiday is all about. Few people seem to have experienced the loss of a loved one in wartime. That's good, of course, but we still need to be aware of what the meaning of the day is.

[Dr. T]

16. Some moron blasted off fireworks that were so loud

it breifly tripped the electricity off in my neighborhood.

Does anybody know if Faux News or some other putrid magasphere propaganda outlet told them to do that? It wreaks of maga fake patriotism.

[usaf-vet]

18. People who have never experienced war, even from a distance. when I was probably 8-10 when we were at a family...

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.... gathering. The adults were all sitting around a table, enjoying small talk while the cooker heated up to cook hot dogs and hamburgers. Some of the women were starting to uncover the dishes they had prepared. The kids were told to go off and play, dinner would be sometime soon. One of my older cousins had managed to get some firecrackers.

We were some distance away from the adults when we lit a string of firecrackers and threw them on the ground in the direction of the adult table. We wait for the anticipation for them to start going off. Within seconds of them starting to bang, bang, bang, and smoke, we noticed a commotion at the adult table. One of our soft-spoken uncles had dove under the table face down with his hands interlocked on the back of his head.

When the loud bangs stopped, we all looked over to see the other adults try to talk our uncle out from under the table. He finally came out, obviously shaken and scared. Finally, one of the adults came over to where we kids were gathered and told us No more firecrackers.

We were later told he had battle fatigue, what we now call PTSD, as he had fought and survived the Battle of the Bulge. Where many of his fellow soldiers had died.

Never again at a family outdoor cookout did we let off firecrackers.

Although many of the adults had fought in World War II, including my dad. His tour was as a radioman who spent 18 months "22" miles up the Amazon river on a clandestine radio site in the jungle intercepting German U-boat signals. I later found out it was a top-secret operation using what is now called HUFF DUFF. It used new technology to triangulate the location of the German U-boats in coordination with other clandestine radio sites all along the eastern border of South America. Once located, they would dispatch torpedo-carrying planes to attempt to sink the U-boats.

The German U-boats were in the South Atlantic Ocean hunting supply ships supporting our troops that wer fighting Rommel in North Africa.

For an actual story about the use of Huff Duff, read a 2024 book titled Codename Nemo by Charles Lachman. For more on the actual technology, read Secret Weapons (U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic), aka Huff Duff, written by Kathleen Broome Williams, 1996

[ecstatic]

19. Lol! I just heard some for the first time a few minutes ago. I was so confused

It's late and my mind did not associate Memorial Day with fireworks. I wondered if it was gunshots at first but then I could hear the streak sound after each boom.

[niyad]

20. Who? Idiots, clueless twits, assholes. I worry for those with PTSD,

and for all the animals. I want to smack the selfish, inconsiderate jerks.

I also am annoyed by those who say "Happy Memorial Day".

[John1956PA]

21. A few years ago, a DUer from Southwestern Pennsylvania made the same observation.

The DUer is from a deep red county to the east of Pittsburgh.

I do not understand the fireworks compulsion either.

[Turbineguy]

22. Somebody who votes for

an idiot who says, "Happy Memorial Day!"

[3catwoman3]

27. One of the employees at our local Trader Joe's, who has checked us out...

...often enough that she remembers our names, wished us a "Happy Memorial Day" when we were there today. I (politely, I hope) replied, "How about "Solemn Memorial Day?"

[Figarosmom]

23. My neighbors😵‍💫

[TomSlick]

24. The fireworks tents started going up this weekend.

When they open, I'm buying a box load of load, flashy pyrotechnics.

When Trump dies, is impeached, is forced out under the 25th Amendment, or a new President is sworn in, I'm setting them off at nightfall. The local cops can come and raise hell. I'm celebrating a new Independence Day.

[ColoringFool]

25. Jerks Would Be My Guess.

[Warpy]

26. Dumbasses who resent the fact that there is only one Fourth of July per year

and feel compelled to treat every holiday like the Fourth Lite.

Try to tell them it's supposed to be spent in a cemetery cleaning headstones, pulling weeds, and planting flowers at the graves of our war dead, they'll just shurg, flip a burger, and think of the fun they'll have with fireworks after dark.]

[Srkdqltr]

28. If there weren't laws against it people would shoot them off every day. Everywhere.

[diane in sf]

29. Many idiots around here would, but fortunately the weather turned gray and cold, lol.

[no_hypocrisy]

30. I know. Our retail grocery store was selling rockets and fireworks yesterday.

And were being purchased.