Letter: Enjoy freedom to celebrate    I think this year there
have been more complaints in the editorial page regarding
fireworks. The complaints address the noise, mess, and danger.
The revolution against the crown was also noisy, messy, and
dangerous. I for one enjoy a good neighborhood show a few days
out of the year to remind me how glad I am that those aren’t
real cannons and mortars going off because we’re being invaded.
I’ve also heard that we should leave the shows to the
professionals. This seems just plain wrong because of the United
States’ long, proud history of citizen soldiers defeating some
of the gravest threats to life, liberty and property.  As for
Kathy Baran’s Aug. 5 letter, “Instead of fireworks, honor
veterans,” posing the question of what Revolutionary War
soldiers would think of how we celebrate, I think they would be
impressed by the dazzling displays, our hot and cold running
water, electricity, mechanized agriculture, vaccinations,
repeating rifles and body armor, just to name a fe