I Pledge Allegiance (2011)
“No matter how many consecutive Fourth of Julys we’d come here and do exactly the same thing. No matter how many consecutive years we took the green line to Park Street and then made the nervous walk over to the North End to purchase the illegal fireworks. I knew weeks in advance — certainly by, say, June 21 — what was going to happen and what it was going to sound like.
Still, it shocked me. Every time.
Cherry bombs, M-80s, bottle rockets, Roman candles, everything we could scrape up the money ...for was part of our arsenal. Then we would bring craft to float out on the pond and attack. Ivan, who only cared about the boom-boom element, just brought a copy of the Globe and folded boats out of the newspaper. Sometimes he didn’t even bother with the folding, just balling a sheet up and telling us to use our imaginations as we fired away. Rudi usually managed to come up with something half-shipwrecked already, since he shopped in people’s trash cans. Beck, also working the reasonable/economical side of things since we were going to destroy these things anyway, hand made a couple of boats out of scraps of whatever he found at home.MoreLess
Still, it shocked me. Every time.
Cherry bombs, M-80s, bottle rockets, Roman candles, everything we could scrape up the money ...for was part of our arsenal. Then we would bring craft to float out on the pond and attack. Ivan, who only cared about the boom-boom element, just brought a copy of the Globe and folded boats out of the newspaper. Sometimes he didn’t even bother with the folding, just balling a sheet up and telling us to use our imaginations as we fired away. Rudi usually managed to come up with something half-shipwrecked already, since he shopped in people’s trash cans. Beck, also working the reasonable/economical side of things since we were going to destroy these things anyway, hand made a couple of boats out of scraps of whatever he found at home.MoreLess
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