Back in 2015, a few days before Independence Day, Kevin Rhoades planted a sign on the lawn outside his Texas home that bore a simple message: “Combat Veteran Lives Here. Please Be Courteous with Fireworks.” “It didn’t work,” said Rhoades, 33, a Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq and suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome. “People still pop fireworks off in town even though it’s against the law. Some people just don’t understand.” The sign Rhoades put up in his yard, which he got from an Indiana veterans group called Military With Ptsd, was not merely an effort to prevent a sleepless night. Experts say fireworks pose a genuine threat to some PTSD sufferers and can cause them...

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