To the editor:

Regarding Larry Devers’ letter (“Fireworks fan”) in the July 7 issue: On Friday morning, after all the celebration was over, I found the remains of a rocket in my friends’ yard, so tightly buried, nose down a good 3 inches into the dirt, that I had a hard time pulling it out. What would have happened if that remnant had landed on someone say, a child?

The money paid out by Lawrence citizens for fireworks this Fourth of July would have gone a long way in bolstering the Jamie Kelley Leukemia Fund, mentioned also in Sunday’s newspaper. Seems to me that helping out a fellow American in need is a far more patriotic act than spending money on frivolous toys that can potentially maim bystanders or destroy your neighbors’ property.

Sue Novak,

Lawrence