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My next door neighbor from Mexico asked me an odd question this past Saturday regarding Fourth of July celebrations.

This is a hard working mom putting her kids through school and trying to be a good citizen, and she asked me if I thought she might get in trouble for lighting fireworks in the driveway out front of the complex we live in.

It had been pouring buckets of rain for two days, and I didn't quite understand why she might think she's get into trouble...not like there was any danger of setting someone's roof on fire with a stray bottle rocket.

So she added that she'd heard the police were running around enforcing odanances regarding fireworks, and somehow got the idea that they were illegal.

"Not at all, we here in America we consider this to be one of our essential civil liberties to blow stuff up once a year, just because we can, so go for it!"

Her boy got the biggest grin on his face I'd seen in a long time.

This is the thing the people of the world just don't quite understand about us Americans...we're all just pyomaniacs at heart....(chuckle).

Boys will be boys no matter where they come from though, and that is self evident.

Aye, if I'm guilty of contributing to the delinquency...(chuckle)...I doubt anyone will sue me.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/we_the_people/ Mon Jul 06, 2009
Hi, guys. Cool post -- might want to correct the spelling of composer Aaron Copland's name, though.

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@ Michael in Florida -- Thanks for the catch! We've corrected the spelling of Copland's name.]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/we_the_people/ Sun Jul 05, 2009