Lite it up … the 4th in our small town. 7/4

Ours’ is a small resort town. For 8 weeks a year our town is run a muck, loaded with “out of town folks” wanting to get back to some form of nature. As a small kid I’d watch in amazement our town’s would lite off a little display of fireworks on the 4th which other towns would blow off as well. The town did it over a beautiful lake and the evening reflections made it all the more impressive. Also, years back a group of kids would put on a water ski show just prior to sunset followed by the fireworks display.

This event has become an annual tradition and it has drawn larger and larger crowds annually. Now there are kiddy parades, marching bands and floats messing up the down town. It’s a great time especially for the saloon keepers. Then at night there is the ski show followed by late evening fireworks and all of it has gotten very up scale. The whole town and thousands of tourists get wrapped up in it.

Why is the 4th different? Why is petty politics set aside for one day a year? Why do most all peoples share is a sence of peace and security on the 4th? It’s a thing called freedom and it has cost and it has cost us dearly and it still is… so to those Americasn helping others gain their freedom the least we can do is light off a sparkler and remember those in uniform holding the line.