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Happy Birthday USA!

By Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier

Fireworks light up the night in Bristol, Va., on Friday following the BriSox win over the Johnson City Cardinals.

Happy Birthday USA!

Jerry Puckett looked up from the fireworks shell he was loading into a fiberglass tube behind DeVault Stadium on Friday afternoon, and smiled when someone asked if he had the best job on the planet this day – the eve of July 4th.

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