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In reply to the discussion: Sitting on my front porch in SW effing hillbilly PA... [View all]Harker
(14,184 posts)46. Up here in New Castle...
the fireworks capital, one first wonders if it's gunfire.
I'm not thinking about celebrating - I'm respecting those who traded their lives for an ideal, and hoping war ends forever.
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Thank you, Codifer. Please consider cross posting to the Poetry Group.
littlemissmartypants
May 2020
#29
That goes far beyond just "awkward". I despise the Grotesque Orange Pustule.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 2020
#35
I don't know about rotting in Hell, but they're going to have a higher Covid-19 infection rate.
NNadir
May 2020
#47
In my neighborhood, we have signs asking people not to use fireworks, out of consideration
niyad
May 2020
#59
Plus Memorial Day is for soldiers who died. Lots of folks confuse it with Veterans Day
IronLionZion
May 2020
#61
We can never forget those who died and we cannot allow a bonespur chicken hawk to take us down.
Evolve Dammit
May 2020
#64