I wish I could feel pride. I want to feel pride. But it's nearly midnight where I am, fireworks are still constant from many places in my neighborhood, and all I can think is: this is the sound people from other countries associate with bombing and war. Not us; it's celebration. I am not afraid something will hit my home and destroy it. I am not in my basement hoping to walk out of it tomorrow, unlike what the USA has done to other people. And I am ashamed.














