 nature we were there to celebrate and uh you know it's it's a great time to come together as a community and i'm glad celebrations for fireworks this year are going to have it looks like clear skies yeah so um shouldn't be uh it shouldn't be too bad out there for anybody so it should be great matt jacobson is here matt is a veteran he went to the united states naval academy and he served in the air force matt what does independent state mean to you