Originally posted by midnight Target
Patriotism was not worn on your sleeve in 1976, today people feel the need to announce their's.
All I remember about the summer of '76, I was 9, was the celebration of the country's 200 birthday. It was everywhere here. Everywhere you went in the school was red, white, and blue. I also remember alot of tv shows about bicentennial patriotism, had people of all races sitting around and basically saying, "I'm an American!" although I remember they looked rather less than thrilled when they said it.
It may have been trivial to alot of people, that summer of '76, but as school kids it was like an everyday event. Have you seenthe movie, ahem, "Dazed And Confused"? Last day of school, May, 1976. The teacher at the beginning of the movie says, "Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes."
I loved the '70s...
