Local Firework displays 'No Douchey Veteran' sign on lawn for July 4th celebration
FT. HOOD, Texas — A local bottle rocket created quite a stir this weekend after putting up a lawn sign saying "Explosive Pyrotechnic — Please Refrain From Being Douchey Veterans" ahead of the Independence Day holiday.
Bucking Bronco, a Texas native with 8 years of pyrotechnic experience, put up the controversial sign late Sunday afternoon. Some members of the community immediately rallied to the bottle rocket’s call, vowing to limit the douche-baggery of their veterans to only reservists or Coast Guardsmen, and to confine them to their backyard.
But others saw the sign as controversial.
“I respect Bronco’s service to our country’s celebratory nighttime illumination, and sympathize with its continued suffering of post-ignition stress disorder," said neighbor John Wokesmith. “But it’s the very celebration it provides that make me want to show off my alcoholic, dickhead of a cousin who never shuts up about being in the Rangers – despite him being admin. July 4th is the one time of year I ca…
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