To the editor:
I read with interest your column in the March 27 issue on fireworks. I’d like to tell you a true story.
My brother, at 12 years of age in Omaha, threw a firecracker in the back alley. When it did not go off, he went to find out why.
It had lit under a bottle and as he headed off to look, it went off. The glass came up and cut his throat. He died instantly.
Dad saw to it I had sparklers only, and he took me to see the city’s aerial display.
John Mellinger
Newton