Posted on 06/24/2023 4:13:21 PM PDT by MrLucky1966
Will there be any huge celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 2026, the 250th Anniversary?
Trump is giving a speech right now. He just said he will lead a year long celebration of America in our 250th year.
Just one more reason he deserves our votes.
A considerable number of commemorations, by the relevant organizations of direct descendants of the Founders and the American Revolution. They number in the 100s of thousands. The keepers of the flame of Freedom, and the correct history of how we got to be a country free from the Tories still trying to run the US— to this very day. Tories in New England- imagine. Yep, they are there- anglophiles for the “special relationship” to a defunct empire.
I can't imagine.
A few years back, I was at some team building thing with about 15 of my co-workers, and the guy running it asked us all to pull a coin out of our pocket, and look at the date. Then he asked us to tell everyone something special about that year.
I looked at mine, and it said "1978".
I was immediately immersed in emotion.
While I was gazing at it he called on me to be first.
I struggled for about five seconds to speak, and I got the impression that even in that five seconds, people shuffled nervously in their seats, unsure of what was going on in my head.
When I spoke, I said (I have to paraphrase, it has been a while):
"...A lot happened to me that year. I was really the year I grew up. But it was those years leading up to that year, 1975, 1976, and 1977 that made 1978 significant. I found out in those years that I could be good at something if I applied myself, and that wasn't who I was before that. I had seen so many things, done so many things, learned so many lessons, and found out so much about myself, that I was just filled with possibility.
Of course, it was offset for me by that fear of unexpectedly doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. But what was great was, for possibly the first time in my life, when I found out I could perform the duties of life competently, it overrode the irrational fear of "buggering it up"..."
And that had a huge impact on me. That is why all of this insanity is so painful for me.
My God, my Family, and my Country have all imbued those things in me and taught me the rudiments of a moral navigation of these lives of ours.
My God for making me and giving me those inalienable rights.
My Family for living under the guidelines of a moral and just society for preparing me to join that society as a man.
And my country, for allowing me the privilege and opportunity to serve in the military, and in it, find myself as a man.
It was all of those things that have made my life what it is.
And the Left wants to utterly destroy all of those things, those things that provided the scaffolding for my moral and personal growth.
They want to eliminate God.
They want to destroy Family.
And they want to destroy this country.
If not destroy our country by subsuming our government into a larger world-wide body type of governance, to destroy what was The United States of America and create a country that will have the potential, due to its acts, to be more hated and feared than any in history.
Yeah, “Triquinquagenarial” sounds like one of the new “woke” terms...”.LBGTQ++Triquin”.
That is for 150 years not 250. The US issued commemorative stamps in 1927 that declared ‘sesquicentenial’
Thanks for the correction on “semiquincentennial”...still hard to say....almost as bad as my made up “trisemicentennial”. The 300th is tricentennial?? The federal semiquincentennial commission set-up in July 2016....a PDJT idea?? Looks like it was more a U.S. House of Reps idea:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4875/cosponsors
https://america250.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/PLAW-114publ196.pdf
Philadelphia had a fair in 1926, an attempt at at World’s Fair. It was a big bust. There was talk in the Sixties about having another one in 1976, but it didn’t come off. Nowaday’s World’s Fairs (except maybe in China) are a thing of the past.
The Civil War Sesquicentennial (2011-2015) was nothing like the Civil War Centennial (1961-1965). Look for the 2026 Semiquincentennial/Sestercentennial/Quarter Millennial likewise to be a big fizzle.
Roman Republic lasted 482 years...
Obungle was too busy dividing us all over again in 2011-2015 to celebrate the 100-year reunion after the bitterest conflict in our history.
Some good reflection there. That’s why it’s important for those of us who have a memory of a better America and understand American heritage to keep the lights burning, and subvert the bad guys every way we can. I live my life according to my values. If that offends someone, that’s too bad. I teach ESL and citizenship classes at a community college and I try to educate my students —future new Americans — in American history and values. They are receptive. They value being here. Sometimes looking at things makes me sick and I have to fast from the media, but I also see some very positive signs of people fighting back. Bud Light. Target. In my town in a blue part of Indiana, one of the shop owners, who is an open lesbian, wanted the city council to issue a Pride Month proclamation and fly the rainbow flag in front of the city hall. The mayor and council refused. She threw the usual tantrum on social media, but the city government didn’t back down. People are getting involved in school boards and demanding accountability. All positive signs. We need to extend that to other levels of government.
One flaw in the American character is that we often let things go completely to hell before we decide to fix them. We are at that point now and I hope that enough people are down for the struggle, which is going to be long and may get ugly, but is necessary so that we might have “a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, might not perish from the earth.”
I saw it in Boston. Thought it was utterly lame and cheesy. The preparation for the Boston visit was very poor.
150 years is a sesquicentennial, so what’s the 250th anniversary called?
According to the education establishment today America didn’t start in 1776 but in 1614.
I have the Bicentennial marriage license from Philadelphia, where I married my first wife. She divorced me 17 years ago and is presently suing me because my state retirement pension, which she took as part of the settlement, got screwed up by her lawyer. (As you may guess, she both apostasized and went hard left as part of her decision to divorce.) But the Bicentennial marriage license will become an heirloom, passed on to our son—who, having seen what happened to Dad, is a perpetual bachelor.
1976 was a bittersweet year for me personally too. I was in third grade and during 1975/76 my parents separated and later divorced. Mom told my father not to tell me about the divorce until the summer because she felt my grades would plummet. Well, my father did tell me, in February, not exactly summer. My grades did plummet. I remember Miss Darby taking me aside and asking me what is going on because of my grades. I remember busting out crying, telling her what is going on and she hugged me. After that she and Mom worked with me and us in school studying the American Revolution both stimulated my interest in history, got my grades up and also got my mind off my problems from time to time as we celebrated and studied. The BiCentennial really occupies a special place with me.
I loved the BiCentennial Minutes. I’d like to see them on DVD.
Different nation now
Demographics have exploded here that are indifferent or detest our founders
Little will be made of it
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