Letter: Setting off fireworks on July 3 serves lazy people, not America

Fireworks belong on July 4, stop accommodating lazy people

Why were the fireworks on July 3 again? The Fourth of July holiday was on a Thursday so most people were probably taking Friday off to have a long weekend.

Regardless, Independence Day is July 4, not on a more convenient day. My whole life we stayed up late to watch the fireworks and always managed to get up the next day for work. Boo hoo for today's people who can't stay up a little later. The celebration of Independence Day is being diminished by making it just another day while the fireworks —which were the highlight to the end of that day — are now relegated to a more convenient time.

What's next? Christmas and New Year's Day on a Monday? But then won't most people be too exhausted to work on Tuesday?

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You people have got to stop rearranging holidays and other events for the convenience of lazy people. We may have to make a little effort — as other Americans have for 200 years — to properly celebrate the most important day in the history of this nation.

Catherine Kosnik, Erie