Posted on 07/04/2015 1:35:08 PM PDT by PROCON
Today, America celebrates it's 239th birthday, but do you remember our Bicentennial celebration, July 4, 1976?
Come on you older FReepers, and you know who you are.
Where were you and what did you do that day, 39 years ago.
In 1976 I was stationed at Pease AFB New Hampshire with the 509th Bomb Wing (SAC). During the previous year the wing had Disney’s Mickey Mouse Characters Placed on all of the Service vehicles.
It got to the Point the the Munitions Maintenance Squadron became known on base as the Mickey Mouse Squadron.
During that year we also sponsored an air show during the summer.It was one of the best summers I had up to that time.
I was working at a Youth Conservation Corp. camp outside Calais, Maine. The YCC was a reincarnation of the CCC but for high school age students. A summer jobs program, but their was a lottery to get to work.
Calais is near Eastport, Maine (the first place in America to see the sunrise) where we all went for the day and to watch the fireworks.
We had numerous work trucks including a flatbed with sides. Whole camp was transported in these vehicles without seats or other safety restraints. Would never happen today. I rember the flatbed becasue we took it to the drive in where we saw “Jaws” which I hated. It is the only blockbuster movie I have ever seen (in a movie theater or drive in).
I was 16 years-old and my family had just relocated to a new city (Montgomery, Alabama) so my dad could find work.
We moved into a house a couple of days before the 4th. I watched the festivities on TV.
I think that is the first time I ever heard the phrase “tall ships.”
In the summer of 1976, Amy and I were writing accounting software for our clients at Custom Computer Service. Other than complaining about government and corrupt politicians, politics was not very high on my list. The idea for forum software did not even enter my mind until 20 years later.
Yes, among other things.
Being breastfed by my mother and/or crying.
I was at the Boston Common, listening to Tchiakowsky’s first piano concerto and his 1812 Overture during our nation’s 200 birthday.
You can polish all the brass
In the navy
You can take it up the ...,
In 1976 I was in Wildflecken FRG with HHC 2/12 CAV. also. Just wondering who you are?
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