Today is the 245th anniversary of the fourth of July. (I was about to put this in MPSIMS. But my post comes with a couple of related questions.)
You know 2001 was the 225th anniversary. I always wondered why they didn’t do something special then. It was just before 9-11 too. So we’d all remember it as a more innocent time too. Ah, well.
Also you know in just five short years it’ll be our Sestercentennial (250-some guy on another message board was nice enough to tell me). Are we going to do something special then? I wonder, because I kinda feel like I got cheated out of the Bicentennial.
Here it is: true story, I was just turned 8. And everyone was making a big deal about it. Watch the tall ships on TV, they told me. I didn’t even know what tall ships were. Then it was all over. And I was riding in the car with my family (I remember). I somehow missed it all, I felt. Well, will I live to see the Tricentennial, I asked? Sure, if you live to be a hundred and eight, they told me.
Anyway, I don’t know if I should tell you all this. But almost everyone on my mother’s side of the family came down with dementia, when they got to that age range. So I don’t know what condition I’ll be in, if I live to be 108.
So what about the Sestercentennial? Will they do anything special? I know from what I heard, they did for the Sesquicentennial (150th, i.e., 1926 [my grandparents were there 
]).
Well? Tell me, cause I really want to know .