Editors Note its the same thing that makes Ridgewood Great it’s you the individual
By John Podhoretz
July 3, 2016 | 9:43am
Forty years ago tomorrow — on July 4, 1976 — the largest armada in human history sailed into New York Harbor to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States of America. It was composed of 281 large vessels and small crafts numbering in the thousands, all led by 17 magnificent “tall ships.”
President Gerald Ford sat aboard the USS Forrestal as the watercraft paraded before him along with more than half a million people.
And everywhere you looked, there was an American flag.