I remember I had a terrible toothache during all the festivities. I was 12. In school we did a lot of american history the previous year. I remember on TV they showed thousands of boats in the New York harbour. Out farther was an Aircraft carrier and a Destroyer. There were jets with the Red/White/Blue smoke flying all over the place, and that night the Destroyer shot off a 21 gun salute, it lit up the whole harbour. Of course there was one of the largest fireworks displays ever, it went on forever.