Fireworks

[Leah]

I had never thought about this. Thanks for bringing it up. I know our dog loses her damn mind, but hadn't thought about our human protectors.

[03trubluGT]

I still remember the incoming alarms from the SCUD attacks in Desert Storm.

I remember the night I was just too damn tired to run to the bunker and woke up the next morning to learn the SCUD went over us and hit an Air Force installation killing several Airmen.

Needless to say I ran my ass to the bunker until I came back to the States.

[Nash B.]

It freaks out some of my horses. Luckily not to the point that they'll run through the fence, but they pace around in their pens whenever one goes off.

[KBScobravert]

Went to get a refill on heartworm stuff the other day, and they were saying July 5tg is one of their busiest days because dogs freak out and hurt themselves.

Maybe I should get a thunder shirt.

http://www.thundershirt.com/

[KBScobravert]

I hate that stupid ring tone that sounds like an incoming alarm. Fireworks are okay for me.

When I came home in July for R&R my wife had it as her morning alarm. I came out of fucking skin when it won't off for the first time.

[Denny]

I hate that stupid ring tone that sounds like an incoming alarm. Fireworks are okay for me.

[Slow Five-O]

my dog sure as shit hates it!

Went to get a refill on heartworm stuff the other day, and they were saying July 5tg is one of their busiest days because dogs freak out and hurt themselves.

[Cooter]

my dog sure as shit hates it!

[motoman]

My dad received a Christmas card on the door with a note inside the card from a veteran who lived in down the street that did 3 tours overseas. He'd just returned 6 weeks earlier and asked that people be mindful of shooting off fireworks with veterans in the neighborhood. I don't remember it what it said word for word but it was a card written very well.

[dsrtuckteezy]

i love it. i dont like when one of my buddies lights an artillery shell on my front porch at 4 am while i'm asleep.

[KBScobravert]

I know we have a few vets and contractors on here that have spent time deployed to Afghanistan/Iraq and even past wars. I can not be alone in hating holidays like this when your neighbors start blasting off fireworks for hours into the night. I know exactly what it is that I am hearing but the part of my brain that says it is harmless isn't telling the other parts that control the physiological shit. Maybe it is just hearing them laying in bed that puts my body back to the same conditioning I had when these same noises were not harmless for so many years.

Sorry to rant but I am awake, sober and my nerves are twisted.