NEW YORK CITY – It was 1981 when Ronald Colbert, who just returned home from serving in the Navy as a Mess Specialist aboard the USS Cavalla, went to Times Square to watch the ball drop in person for the first time.
It was a lifelong dream that was fulfilled that year, and he’s been going there almost every year since. "My younger brother and I would stay up with whoever was babysitting at the time to watch the ball drop.
Everyone wore their party hats, streamers. Dancing in tiaras and tuxedos.The initial ball was just a little white -- probably as big as a bowling ball on a flagpole.
Now they turned it into this electronic monstrosity," Colbert said. "The excitement is unbelievable, the energy that everyone has during that last minute.
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