Show Get involved in the Bicentennial In less than a year and a half America will celebrate its birthday birthday birth day as an independent country Whether that milestone will be characterized by bickering and preoccupation with present problems or by a renewed determination tion to make our nation even greater is up to us Two centuries ago 56 brave men risked their homes families livelihoods and very lives to sign the document declaring our freedom The personal commitment being asked of us to commemorate their commitment is of oC a far different order But are we willing to put aside our differences and personal difficulties to make that commitment In 1876 the looth birthday of the country was celebrated by a worlds world's fair in Philadelphia In 1976 there will willbe willbe be no single city in which we celebrate our anniversary and no single exhibition of our progress explained the head of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration in a recent speech John W. W Warner added that for Cor a nation of oC nearly million no noone noone noone one city would be big enough The Bicentennial commission of oC each state receives annually in operating expenses Up to another is also available to states through matching federal grants for worthy Bicentennial projects According According Ac Ac- cording to the ARBA AREA nearly 2000 such projects have already received the agency's stamp of oC approval For information on how you and your community can get involved in the Bicentennial write American Revolution Bicentennial Jackson Place NW Washington D. D C. C As John Warner says the Bicentennial will be a once a lifetime opportunity for all Americans to celebrate together the accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments ac ac- which have transformed a handful of weak but determined colonies into the strongest and freest nation in history and to unite in a common effort to honor our country on her anniversary and to improve the quality of life for those who come after us |