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llmart

(17,575 posts)

8. Same here.

Reply to TomSlick (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 10:57 PM

Jul 2025

I've always watched it on PBS every single year except the one when I was vacationing in D.C. I won't watch it this year. There has not been a time when I didn't get choked up at some of the music. Not feeling so patriotic right now, but I'm sure I'd still get choked up but for a different reason.

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