Fireworks

It is July 3rd -All around me I can hear the sounds of fireworks or rather feel the concussion of the ground. I can not see any explosions in the sky -but i can hear and feel them all around me. I know because I have been outside looking up at the dark sky. As I stand on my back step, I suddenly feel like I am in another time and place. I wonder if this is what the sound of war is like? Surrounded on all sides by the loud concussions of the ground but no explosions in the sky. I have never been to war or seen a war. I guess not many women have, but for an instant there in the darkness -surrounded by sound and echo of the earth, I was afraid , I was in awe, I stood alone. I said a prayer for my Nation and all the men and women who defend and have defended her. Long may my Flag Wave.