I sent this to the editor of the Daily Journal hoping it would get published. Since it didn't here it is:

This fourth of July had to be one of my favorites. Not because of what I did, but because of the spectacle I witnessed in my neighborhood and throughout Greenwood. That was the blatant disregard for Indiana's laws on fireworks. In every direction, I could see bottle rockets bursting into colors and hear fire crackers blowing up. The city's fireworks display didn't even compare.

For these were individuals who were providing the ammunition to entertain their family and indirectly their neighbors. There private displays weren't tied to the ground or relegated a secluded area this year where nobody would see. People took matters into their own hands, without reservations if someone would constrain their freedom for their peaceful use of gunpowder.

That's why this fourth of July was different. I hope there is a legislator who took notice of what his fellow citizens were doing, and pens a law to ensure that people can legally exhibit the freedom they did this Independence Day in the future.