OPINION: All aboard for America250
Becky Funk
The 1976 Bicentennial Celebration doesn’t seem that long ago to many of us.
I can still hear Johnny Cash singing, “All aboard, here comes the Freedom Train,” as I stood in line with my classmates waiting to tour the American Bicentennial Freedom Train as it rolled into town. And I can still picture the bulletin board in Mr. Hathaway’s sixth-grade American History class with the words, “It’s not perfect, but it’s the best there is,” stretched across the top and our one-page reports on who we supported for President pinned to the burlap-covered cork. (I, of course, wrote mine about Ronald Reagan, even though Gerald Ford later won the Republican nomination that summer.)
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