Fireworks Celebration

Hawaii is a little different than the rest of the United States.

We do celebrate Independence Day with fireworks displays, and they are pretty spectacular. However, the big fireworks holiday here is New Year’s Eve, primarily because of the large Asian influence instilled by the 19th Century Japanese and Chinese immigrants.

Hawaii can be compared to a warzone on New Year’s Eve. The images we saw on television of the bombing of Baghdad at the onset of the Iraq war cannot come close to comparing what it was like when Hawaii welcomed in Y2K.

Still, the Fourth of July aerials launched from Ala Moana Beach Park are truly spectacular, especially when watched with the radio turned to the station that provides patriotic music synchronized to the “bombs bursting in air.”