If you’re looking for something different and free for New Year’s Eve, how about fireworks at the Washington Monument?
In addition to the fireworks, there will be video displayed on all four sides of the monument as a kickoff for the United States’ 250th birthday celebration in 2026.
“We’re excited that on New Year’s Eve, Freedom 250 is lighting up the Washington Monument as the world’s tallest birthday candle to kick off the nation’s 250th birthday year,” Keith Krach, CEO of Freedom 250, said. Freedom 250 is the presidentially appointed committee planning the year-long celebration of the United States’ 250th birthday.
Starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, projectors will light up all four sides of the Washington Monument.
“It’ll be looking at America’s past, present and what’s to come over the next 250 years,” Krach said.
“Primarily it will focus on the four pillars of Freedom 250, which is innovation; it’s also community and faith; it’s also on the beauty of our country as well,” Krach said. “And, you know, the other thing that’s great about that is that it’ll be something that will kind of be an animation and I think everybody’s going to enjoy it. So from adults to kids and everything.”
Then at midnight on New Year’s Eve, it will seem like the Fourth of July.
“There will be fireworks on New Year’s Eve, so that’ll be at midnight, of course,” Krach said. “And then on July 4, the fireworks display we’re promising [will be] the largest fireworks display in the history. That’s going to be spectacular as well.”
This will be the first time there will be a projection on all four sides of the monument. In 2019, NASA projected an image of a 363-foot Saturn V rocket on the east face of the monument to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
While Krach would not give away the specifics of what will be projected, he says it won’t be political.
“Freedom 250 is a nonpartisan organization. Our aim is to bring Americans together,” he said. “This is about celebrating the triumph of the American spirit. That’s really what this is all about, what Freedom 250 is about, what everything we’re going to be doing this year. So I think everybody’s going to enjoy it.”
Will we see President Donald Trump’s image on the Washington Monument?
“No, I don’t think he’s going to be projected on the Washington Monument, but he promised the greatest celebration ever for this 250th,” Krach said. “And that’s really why Freedom 250 was created, to be able to create this kind of movement. It’s a nonpartisan movement.”
While the fireworks will only be on New Year’s Eve, the projection will continue through Jan. 5.
Krach said there are a series of major events planned for D.C. and the nation and that next July Fourth’s fireworks display will be bigger than ever before in D.C.
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