The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary
Before the U.S. reaches its semiquincentennial — try saying that out loud — it will have to surviveTimes also were fraught in the run-up to the country's 1976 bicentennial celebration, which came two years after Richard Nixon resigned his presidency over the Watergate scandal and convulsions over the end of the Vietnam War. It followed a decade that saw the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
“I couldn't have been more proud than that evening to be an American, and I want my kids to feel the same way,” Rios said in an interview.“I feel like we'll be successful if as many Americans as possible feel like this is the land of opportunity,” Rios said.
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