I was a teenage boy in 1976, the last time, perhaps, that a wave of widespread good feeling and patriotism swept through my country, the United States. It was probably the last time there was a great big parade in my hometown, which, like many another, was incorporated in 1876, the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, so that our town’s cente…
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