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ShoopDeDoop
Combat Veteran here - Enjoy your 4th of July however you want. They should be expecting fireworks. It's unexpected ones that are the issue.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
6+23.
razzlefrazzlefrigglefrackin
If you think your PTSD is really that bad, you need to seek treatment, not a whiny yard sign. (Assuming it's one of the whining ones)
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
6+23..
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
This is one of those things us regular people just have a hard time grasping. I know it but remembering it might be hard.
Greekgeek1980
Seriously.. No disrespect, but put some ear plugs in and turn your t.v up...
CrazyGuyOnABike
Hard to do when shits going off for literally a month on either side of the fourth. One day when you expect it, there's no problem.
gijoeflint67
what a little bitch
mp82rw
Combat vet here. Screw this guy. If you are my neighbor, I expect and encourage you to try to put a crater in the earth with your fireworks.
jonnyson14
BuckNASTAY
Dick head lol
barbarianbryan
Skyler517
Be kind or understanding when a crazy-eye dude is screaming at you in his skivvies.
Canofminus
I try, but then I remember I'm in a WalMart at 3pm.
NerfHerderTurdBurglar
"Sir, my name is not Charlie"
summitshow
Sounds like you speak from experience.
Skyler517
I can't remember since the accident, but maybe.
AnUnknownErrorOccurred
This special snowflake bullshit again.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
Fucking pog ass bullshit. If a vet is claiming fireworks trigger their "ptsd" they're a liar, an give those of us with issues a bad name
AustinAlex
From what I know of veterans that I've talked to/overhead whichever, they hate this kinda stuff.
thevortexmaster
Happy Canada day!!
ScaryBananas
Kinda funny that a country so obsessed with guns is so scared of fireworks
WolfAtTheDoor
As a vet, EOD, he's milking it. Enjoy the shit out of your fireworks! Go crazy! It's not like you're planting IEDs in this wank's yard!
Gotham3Returns
Why not try ear plugs around 4'th of july?
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
For a week before and a week afterwards? That's realistic. How about you shoot off all your fireworks on the day they're intended for?
Gotham3Returns
agreed
jarhead670
So I can only shoot off fireworks one day a year? I'm sorry, I thought this was America!
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
Look, not everyone considers the fact that fireworks can have ill mental and emotional effects on someone. Fine. But once you're aware they
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
can, get to know your neighbor's and ask them about it, or keep your fireworks usage for the day people are expecting them. Freedom doesn't
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
require you to be an outright dick, but knowing someone could be seriously affected, and saying "fuck them, I like boom flashy lights", does
Luxomancer
Last year our town lost a vet from firework triggered PTSD, this year I am just doing sparklers.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
If a vet offed himself because fireworks "triggered" his "ptsd" he was gonna kill himself anyway, using fireworks as a "trigger"was a copout
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TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
I'm normally a very fun guy. I'm tired of these fucks crying about pop rockets while battle hardened friends
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
have not been able to get help and subsequently killed themselves because fucksticks like this gobble up all the well intended attention
SanchoWasHerNameO
It breaks my heart that something that once probably brought a lot of vets joy. Can now trigger a very adverse reaction.
Quetzalcoatl2
Maybe we should stop all wars and all should take a healthy dose of 5 dry grams of shrooms. Then, see that the whole human race is a family.
TrijezniMujo
So we are all inbred? Eeeeww.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
Seriously, the sentiment is nice, but these signs, and the "vets" displaying them are bullshit.
Mypostarecrapsodontupvoteme
Coming from an infidel ^
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
Damn straight. Earned my title of infidel, years later this fat fuck and his buddies show up with a don't scare me with loud noises sign
GeoTeacher
Actually, there are records of PTSD going all the way back to the crusades. People just hid it back then
TheNotSoGoodSamaritan
He meant before their service. Not that vets didn't get PTSD until recently.
SanchoWasHerNameO
Not implying todays vets are the only sufferers they had many different terms for it soldiers heart shell shock CSR Sadly vets still hide it
TrijezniMujo
Ofc, if you don't then people will think you're crazy or weak. That's mentall ilness in general. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Amythyst
Still, the fireworks probably brought them joy before they deployed.
dwizard
This is a Bullshit attention whore.
IExplainTheObvious
Some combat veterans end up with PTSD. It is courteous to let them know if fireworks are going to be set off near them.
ohlookitsaplatypus
Just curious, why is it courteous?
IExplainTheObvious
Because fireworks can be mistaken for gunfire or bombs, triggering their PTSD. There is a difference between distant and nearby fireworks.
ohlookitsaplatypus
But still, why should I care about their ptsd? On the fourth of July or New Year's they should have the wherewithal to prepare
IExplainTheObvious
Caring about the wellbeing of others is called empathy. The lack of it is often called sociopathy.
IExplainTheObvious
They will be prepared for county or city fireworks. However, letting them know fireworks will go off nearby will let them prepare.
SomethingAwesomer
These guys shouldn't go to Europe on holidays like NYE. They have street battles with fireworks. Even I was terrified, and I'm not a vet.
ClickClickBaby
My life flashed before my eyes on NYE in Germany the first year I lived there. So crazy!
SomethingAwesomer
Same here. Someone shot a bottle rocket right into the middle of my group of friends. We acted like it was a bomb, that's how scared we were
thetrulymaddog1134
Had fireworks at my wedding. Didn't think, found my best friend inside the barn, he'd served in war zones. Stayed with him n cranked music
razzlefrazzlefrigglefrackin
Need more of these http://imgur.com/50WaTZ4
diablosword
This is the same argument as political correctness.
MacRockatansky
Yeah, I'm disgusted that the SJW mentality has spread to vets.
WhimsicalCalamari
how scary, the idea that someone is asking you to consider someone other than yourself
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WhimsicalCalamari
"please be courteous with fireworks" can be interpreted to mean "please refrain from launching them prior to the 4th when i don't expect it"
MacRockatansky
No one can ever have fun again because you went to war? Wake up to yourself, clown.
MacRockatansky
Who gives a fuck, I don't care if people set them off on October 18th, it's not their responsibility to change their entire life for you.
ShinyInSerenity
How can you be courteous with fire works other than not using them?
LessThanLucky
You could also plan to set them off elsewhere: opposite end of street, friend's house, etc. or just give them a heads up of when you will
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
Use them only on July 4th so these guys can prepare. Don't surprise them with fireworks on June 29th.
ShinyInSerenity
That makes sense. Thanks
jarhead670
So, only one day a year?
ButYouAintGotNoLegs
Dude, you just commented this on another of my comments. Boom lights are a big deal to you, eh?
jarhead670
I obviously don't give a shit about your opinion then, do I?
GingerTerror
People in my neighborhood are assholes and will be blowing things up all week. So I'm taking my bf, who's a vet, on a camping trip.
jarhead670
Good on you! But your neighbors are assholes because they enjoy fireworks???
GingerTerror
Nah, they're just assholes in general. As in, the cops have been coming by and arresting them lately.
DocFaust13
Should only be necessary on the non-4th days. As a vet with PTSD, I can handle the booms on the one day it's to be expected.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
You get upvotes for not calling this attention whore out, or you said you too have ptsd. Everyone else gets Down votes. Interesting
ActualKangaroo
I will generally launch them whenever it's legal. Here, that is 3 days before and 3 days after,
Fireguy97
Thank you for your service sir.
WhimsicalCalamari
I'd consider "only launching fireworks on the 4th" to fall under "being courteous" like the sign requests :P
Warlocktopus
at first i thought you meant veterinarian
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
All you ducks down voting vets speaking their mind, don't Fucking get it. This year I've lost 3 battles, killed themselves because
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
Their ptsd demons won. Not because neighbors set off fireworks in Fucking July. Pog ass attention whores like this fatty take resources
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
And help from those who need it. Like the Kat that called the suicide hotline and was told to calm down and call back. He's dead because
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
Fat Fucking snowflakes like this cried wolf, and now no one takes a vet seriously when he cries out for help. Fuck you bitches
CrazyGuyOnABike
My neighborhood lost a WWII vet to some severe PTSD repercussions because some drunk teens shot off a dickload of fireworks about a week
CrazyGuyOnABike
before the fourth. On the fourth, you can prepare for it. Outside that, it's a real issue, and an easy problem to solve.
jarhead670
As a veteran, with 4 combat deployments under my belt, digging up and neutralizing IEDs and weapons caches...fuck these signs!
MakerOfBadJokes
Maybe I was just a bit fucked up before I went... I found the Booms relaxing. Last trip, with the wall mounted systems, I'd watch ...
MakerOfBadJokes
Incoming get shredded by the phalynx systems... Fucking fireworks.
AllSillyWilly
yes thank you! finally someone says it.ofcorse better coming from you than me. the only thing iv ever deployed iv chicken nugs in my mouth.
ChowGozen
I regret that I have but only one up vote to give.
ChairmanOfThePEN15Club
southdiver1
Hoo Rah. same here. Well, not an IED guy but, just the same. I guess they are handing out snowflake badges now?
forgetfulvegetarian
Dude read up on how oaf nation feels about these signs ! Lol
RentACop
My thoughts exactly. Also a veteran.
TylerDoYB
Same here, veteran here as well. Thing is though I know people who were fucked up for a while and explosions trigger PTSD in some.
SweepTheLegsJohnny
AGREED. We are not victims, nor are afraid of a little boom. Especially when we know it's our goddamn independence day
Zachakx
I knew someone who watched his sergeant burn alive after an IED took out his humvee. Idk if victim is the right word, but hes damaged by it
Zachakx
Can hardly function.
SweepTheLegsJohnny
Lots of us have seen lots of terrible shit. Putting up a sign on the 4th because you're scared of loud noises is nothing short of ridiculous
SweepTheLegsJohnny
-from a guy that used to search for IEDs
Zachakx
Not everyone has the same nonchalant reaction. You don't know what its like to be that person, there's no harm in respecting that.
SweepTheLegsJohnny
I would also like to say it bothers me when our veteran looks like fat, disgruntled white trash. This is not how we should be presented.
Zachakx
Well, having been in the military I can say that there some hefty people there, too. Some bigger than this guy lol. That's not to say its
Zachakx
the best idea to be that heavy while in, especially deployed but it happens.
ocRZA
well he may have been in actual firefights, so fuck off. -another veteran
jarhead670
Sure thing, chief
yourmotherandIthinkyoushouldmoveout
fuck123456789
yeah, no one has ever had different experiences than you!
DocFaust13
The only time I've ever had a problem with it is when I was sleeping like a week after the fourth. You should expect it on the 4th.
WhimsicalCalamari
my neighbors have been launching fireworks for the past week. evening of the 4th is expected; not doing it other days is 'being courteous'
asharnmedic
Thank you!
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maythedoctorbewithyou
That's not the point being made, vets who put up these signs are the entitled shits who get pissy if a store doesnt have a military discount
jarhead670
The guys with these signs tend to be the ones with sheepdog shirts and molon labe shirts
maythedoctorbewithyou
I'm a veteran myself and these signs are simply a cry for attention because they simply can by some earmuffs to use for one single day.
jarhead670
The 4th isn't a surprise...take the appropriate measures! Don't take away the rights of others to celebrate!
justarandomfandom
I mean couldnt that just mean telling the vet WHEN you plan to set them off?
zoidburgerandfries
Don't take away others rights to take away your rights!
bamcockseverywhere
the supreme irony here is that a sign that size is about as 1st-amendment-compliant as any asshole zoning board could possibly make signs
TylerDunkleberger
You need to check your priveledge jarhead
jarhead670
No, I don't....
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jarhead670
Is that what this is about? Am I only restricted to one day of fireworks? Why can't I use them on my birthday? The first day of summer?
jarhead670
The birth of my kid? An anniversary?...fireworks are celebratory! I'll use them to celebrate!
AspiringLEO
It just says "be courteous" not "nobody is allowed to pop fireworks because I live here"
Oldest
The two of these signs I've seen were posted by people who had the latter attitude. However, I'm sure that's not the majority.
KrazyKirby
Where do you live that people start and stop firing fireworks on the 4th?
Zachakx
You do know that people have a different reaction to external/internal stimuli and it's a waste of time to expect them to be other than
maythedoctorbewithyou
True, but these type of folks are just attention seekers & rather than buying some cheap ear muffs they try to change ur celebration habits
Zachakx
There are some who actually need that kind of respect and there are those that...don't. I advocate for the ones that do need it.
Redmancometh
No joke! I have a friend who was in the marines who is really screwed up. I also have a friend who was an infantry door kicker during (1/2)
Redmancometh
the war, and he regularly says he misses it. And talks about it in way more detail than I want to hear
Zachakx
What they are, right? I don't understand servicemen mocking other servicemen or even casual civvies. We're on the same team.
chalopagus0311
Seriously I don't see why this is always a contest
bamcockseverywhere
To be glib, penises. To be more serious, toxic masculinity. You know, the kind that makes Yakuza finger-chopping or US vet-mocking cool.
Zachakx
Toxic masculinity is a good way of putting it. An obsession for desire for power over others. Borderline neurosis.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
We mock them because they're full of shit. These are the fuckers that heard gunfire from 10 clicks away and claim they got shot. Fucking pog
Oldest
My 1SG said his parents were weak sauce, but he's hard to kill. His son is soft like butter. Skips a generation, he said. Good man.
jusjoshing
This. The guy in the pic looks like he might even be a Cav Scout too. Haha.
TheInfidelYourImamWarnedYouAbout
I wasn't going to say anything, he's beating himself up wearing that shirt!
Zachakx
This is clearly an exaggeration, however I see your point. War isn't for everyone and if you're mocking people who didn't take well or the
Zachakx
Civilians you literally swore an oath to protect then you're in the service for...other reasons.
HerrBisch
Upvotes for your first comment, downvotes for your second. wtf?
Zachakx
No idea. Downvotes for you too apparently lol. Imgur can be weird sometimes.
TylerDunkleberger
If you notice his username is all makes sense. Source, a way more humble army vet.
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