HeyJaredBicentennial Memory Project
Grassroots project to collect the memories of everyday Americans of the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations
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If you were there in 1976, your memory matters (opens the original)
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It’s the morning of July 5th, 1976.The parade is over. The fireworks are spent shells in the community park and the sparkler ends are littered on the sidewalk. The biggest birthday party the country had ever thrown is over, and the morning after feels the way every morning after feels after a big event— is it over already?You didn’t know it then, but you were holding something that morning. You’re still holding it now.Fifty years to the day, here we are again. America turned 250 yesterday. And i
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