WIRE — Part One took in the emptiness of the National Mall in Washington DC during the 250th year of independence of the United States. It compared the number who visited this year's US 4th of July to the Philippine Festival's millions on that day in 1998, the centennial of the Philippine declaration of independence, celebrated on the same humongous rectangular space.
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