Richard Rathe
@nickrauchen@c.im
My Personal Motto "Remain calm, be kind, and carry on regardless!" The first two are from Seneca & the Stoics via Colin Powell. The last is a British expression that I think is associated with WWII when the bombs were falling all around.
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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! 💕 🇺🇸
