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@MissConstrue@mefi.social I could not agree more! I found more photos from that event: https://historycollection.com/26-photographs-americas-1976-bicentennial-celebration/ It was good to scroll thru them. I was about five years older than the kid at the top of this photo. You can tell that they were glad to be part of a whole. And it was a hopeful time... we were getting our act together. We were righting wrongs. For context, these are the things that were on my mind at that time... The first #Oil #Crisis 🛢️ #Watergate 🕵️ #Racism and the #CivilRights Movement ✊🏾 The #VietnamWar (I was subject to the draft.) 🪖 The #ColdWar with its attendant #Nuclear Dread 🤯 My friends and I were particularly concerned about protecting the #Environment 🌲 , tried to avoid cars, and rode our #bicycles everywhere. 🚴 So what about the #Semiquincentennial? Let's say it's a celebration deferred. We need to get our act together, we need to right some wrongs, we need to start feeling AND acting like a whole again. We've made a start, we can do it, and when we're on the right track again I'll be there with you all to celebrate! 💕 🇺🇸

Burning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 48 photographs that capture America at 250 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/america-250-anniversary-photos-civil-rights-moon-landing-9-11-gold-rush #Photography #AmericanCivilWar #Slavery #Ford #ArtAndDesign #TheKennedys #Woodstock #VietnamWar #GeorgeFloyd #IndigenousPeoples #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #September112001 #LaurenGreenfield #GordonParks #Jazz #Smoking #Film #RobertCapa

FTA! Songs Of The GI Resistance by Barbara Dane, released on Paredon in 1970. "As opposition to the Vietnam War increased in the late 1960s, it began to emerge in the military community itself, primarily led by young draftees. Folk singer and political activist Barbara Dane lent her voice and support to resisting solders in a series of recorded performances at GI coffee houses near Army bases in Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. The songs are a mix of traditional songs of protest and resistance, and original songs by Dane and draft resisters. " Folkways https://folkways.si.edu/barbara-dane/fta-songs-of-the-gi-resistance/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS1rSEnxgNE&list=RDYS1rSEnxgNE&start_radio=1 #BarbaraDane #AntiWar #VietnamWar #ProtestSongs #Resistance #FolkMusic #Music

The Independence Palace (#ReunificationPalace ) in #HCMC is an iconic symbol where the #Vietnam War officially ended. Explore the presidential living quarters & underground war bunker. #Saigon #VietnamWar #TravelVietnam