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"Likewise, in the military realm fireworks may remind a veteran or otherwise of gunfire."

In March 1991 I was 40 miles from the Iraqi border in Kuwait City. If the wind was right and the oil smoke more breathable, we could hear the Americans shelling reluctant Iraqis after the end of Gulf War One. When I came home I couldn't hear fireworks at Canada Day festivities. And it took me a few years to get comfortable handling firearms and shooting at targets.