Happy Birthday, America!

On New Years Day, January 1, 2000, my friend Jason and I were driving through Cincinnati when we spotted a huge car dealership sign that stated in bright, flashing red letters... "HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!" Overcome with laughter at this incorrect statement, we nearly wrecked the car in the intersection as we stared in disbelief and wondered, "Who put that up?" However, in subsequent years, we have taken to exchanging this rarest of New Year's greetings, "Happy Birthday, America!" So thanks, whoever you are, who got that one wrong, but who provides us with a good memory each New Year's Day.