I  don't specifically remember a lot about the year 1976, but I DO remember we were living on Ft. Eustis, Virginia, and that we went to see a reinactment, I think of Yorktown, with soldiers in tricornes.  also we boarded  the "Freedom Train"...I don't remember what we saw ON the train...but I sure do remember how massive that locomotive seemed with it's enormous silver smokebox door...like a dragon of iron.

and fireworks...I remember there were fireworks.