Millions of people in the United States celebrated Thursday as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July Fourth parades, cookouts, and the always anticipated fiery splashes of color in the evening sky.
In Washington, neon bursts of light illuminated the night above the National Mall. The Boston Pops performed a musical fireworks spectacular at that city’s Hatch Memorial Shell. And at parades all across the country, from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Waco, Texas, to Alameda, California, revelers dressed up in red, white and blue, and waved the Stars and Stripes in commemoration of Independence Day.
