This 4th of July, a special commission tasked with planning America’s semiquincentennial in 2026 will officially launch its three-year countdown campaign.
Rios noted the atmosphere during the nation’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. America’s 200th anniversary of its founding was celebrated two years after Richard Nixon resigned his presidency over the Watergate scandal and in the post-Vietnam War era.
For Rios, then an 11-year-old girl in Hayward, California, she still "very clearly" remembers the bicentennial celebrations. She recalls learning all the patriotic songs in school, taking a field trip to see the American Freedom Train while it was in town, watching the parade of tall ships coming through the New York and Boston harbors on television.
Rios grew up in a family of nine children and is the daughter of immigrants who moved to the United States in 1958 in search of work. She now has two adult children of her own.
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