First Stars and Stripes Picnic headlined by Navy parachute team; The Leap Frogs First Stars and Stripes Picnic headlined by Navy parachute team; The Leap Frogs and last updated 2021-07-03 23:08:58-04 KANSAS CITY, Mo. â The first Stars and Stripes Picnic took place Saturday at the National World War I Museum and Memorial. More than one thousand people gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July, and after a pandemic year, they were eager to get out and celebrate the holiday with others. "We stayed home all day [last year] with just the people in my house, that was it, we didnât do anything else," Tina Henson. "This year, obviously, we already went firework shopping twice already."