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re: 50 years later: The Bicentennial celebration of 1976
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:36 pm to redneck hippie
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:36 pm to redneck hippie
Your dad worked?
And he made money?
Did you learn nothing from him?
And he made money?
Did you learn nothing from him?
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:37 pm to High C
It was great. We'll never see this again. 
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:38 pm to Burt Reynolds
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Trump’s rally
What a tard that you are to post something so lame.
You and your ilk really do hate America.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:38 pm to Dawgfanman
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The left has spent 50 years and trillions to get rid of any national pride.
Imagine that. Swap out American pride for fig pride. I would never have believed it if someone had told me that would happen.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:38 pm to CAD703X
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i still have the flag glasses and pool sticks we bought that year
Holy crap!!! I forgot about those glasses. I have eight of 'em in a box up in the attic. Better get 'em out and use 'em before it's too late.
Thanks for the reminder!!!
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:39 pm to theballguy
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It was great.
It really was in my experience.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:47 pm to jimmy the leg
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What a tard that you are to post something so lame.
You and your ilk really do hate America.
I mean Trump's rally is pretty much dead on arrival. Pretty lame itself that so many don't even want to do it.
It is disappointing that Trump failed to unite the country though not sure anybody can at this point. America is in tDecline now.
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:51 pm to dstone12
Everyone was so racist back then.
I was 6 years old that year, living in a small town in Alabama. I remember having several black friends. Every parade, ball game, or whatever event in town, blacks and whites would hang out together, have a great time, and we never even thought about it. No one was pushing an agenda...people just got along.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:54 pm to High C
damn man....that picture...Ben Franklin was a straight up badass. BY far our greatest president. which more people understood that. THE GREATEST AMERICAN for sure.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:01 pm to Elvis Parsley
I do! I was in the sixth grade, and our class went to tour it in Baton Rouge. I still have the pin (Freedom Train Logo) that you could get when you toured the train and a pin with the Bicentennial logo. I have the coins from that year along with $2 bills printed in 1976. Just drug all of that out to show the grandkids the other day. Definitely a more patriotic and cohesive time as a nation. So sad what's happened to our education system since then. We're not teaching enough patriotism and too much activism/victimhood. May God bless our country!
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:06 pm to High C
Freedom Train
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:16 pm to Swamp Angel
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oly crap!!! I forgot about those glasses. I have eight of 'em in a box up in the attic. Better get 'em out and use 'em before it's too late.
Thanks for the reminder!!!
thats exactly how many we have. they must have sold them in 8-pack boxes
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:18 pm to High C
We live in an alternate reality
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:36 pm to junkyarddawg3
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Nice musical lineup! Who we got this time around?
Underrated post
Posted on 6/1/26 at 3:45 pm to jimmy the leg
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Your dad worked? And he made money? Did you learn nothing from him?
What the frick is the matter with you? Weirdo
Posted on 6/1/26 at 4:01 pm to redneck hippie
quote:You Louisiana folks had access to top-drawer fireworks, I'm sure. In New Mexico the biggest firecrackers we could legally get were pissant ladyfingers you could easily hold in your hand as they went off, no problem. In 1976 my dad grudgingly wrote a check (I paid him first) to some fireworks outfit in Ohio and I had loads of Zebras and Black Cats to celebrate with, not to mention 5 gross of bottlerockets. I was the envy of my school there for a while.
My dad was a small town veterinarian in 1976. He opened a little fireworks stand outside the clinic, hired some high school kids to run it.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 4:07 pm to High C
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It was everywhere without America-hating protesters involved. Compare it to anything you’ve seen in 2026.
well props to the organizers involved with it. I wasn't alive but lets not act like the several years proceeding it included lots of protests/rallies regarding Vietnam.
So for that group of organizers and admin to be able to put something non political together, unite the country and hold these events is amazing. That hasn't happened with this current admin, where they have decided to make it political, and where they can't try to unite america and people who vote for the other party.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 4:21 pm to geauxpurple
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That was the year I graduated from high school.
We made a much bigger deal of it back then.
It WAS a big deal. That was right after we got out of Vietnam so those protests were still somewhat fresh, and yet we didn’t see any of the BS protests and ‘embarrassed to be an American’ crap that we see today.
Hard to believe how fast 50 years went by.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 4:22 pm to junkyarddawg3
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Nice musical lineup! Who we got this time around?
it's not great!
Posted on 6/1/26 at 4:23 pm to GamecockUltimate
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That hasn't happened with this current admin, where they have decided to make it political,
I keep seeing this as a narrative, but I'm not sure as to what it is specifically referencing.
Are you able to tell me?
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