Ottawa does a great show! (As does DC on the 4th) we have a friend who raves about a fireworks show she saw up here in Canadia and, that it was the first time she had ever seen foreworks without military music playing. (She is from Virginia) I still find her observation a tad odd, Disney for instance does non-military music every night, but I digress.
In my last church I had a parishioner who had been second? In command under J Edgar Hoover. He had Alzheimers and could remember almost nothing, but, he and I had an amazing and precious conversation about his experiences in Canada with the DEW line and I fortunately had learned enough in my Military Reserve days to know what he was talking about.