Neighborhood fireworks ruin day

Who doesn’t enjoy the beauty of the fireworks being shot off the barges into the dark sky on the evening of July 4? It’s magical and spectacular.

It’s the neighborhood fireworks that concern so many of us with dearly-loved house pets. They jump up from a sleep, they bark, they look for a place to go where it doesn’t hurt their ears. They look at their owner with eyes that say, “What’s going on?” For many of us, our pets are like our children; we love them and provide for their welfare as best we can. Even in the cities where the fireworks are banned, there will never be enough police to enforce this law. And what about the aged, the sick, the dying? How hard the noise must be for them as well.

Every single year, there are house fires, roof fires, loss of limb and sometimes loss of life connected with fireworks. The Fourth of July is a good holiday. How we celebrate it is unkind to so many. Don’t we have enough noise in the world already? What is the answer?

Elaine Taylor

Arlington