The Fourth of July: Celebrating U.S. Independence Day

A horse-drawn wagon making its way down a parade route (AP Images)

Uniformed musicians playing trumpets (AP Images)

Children competing in a sack race (AP Images)

Beach visitors splashing in the ocean (AP Images)

Fife players, dressed in Colonial garb, marching in parade (AP Images)

A man costumed as the U.S. mascot “Uncle Sam” (AP Images)

A mustached man holding a toddler on his shoulders (AP Images)

A young woman, wearing a hijab, waving a U.S. flag (AP Images)

Three women enjoying a picnic lunch (AP Images)

Children competing in a pie-eating contest (AP Images)

Fourth of July fireworks reflecting off the granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (AP Images)