the fireworks "war"

http://news.stv.tv/oddly-enough/106167-fireworks-spread-terror-in-war-weary-congo-town/

I am absolutely sure that the 4th of July we celebrated at my Uncle Harry's place on the Western Slope of Colorado in 1971 violated several arms control agreements this country had signed. It took dasy for the smoke to clear and the echoes to recede....