SPEAK UP What has been your most memorable 4th of July?
Watching fireworks in my Watching fireworks in my hometown with my family. My little brother loved them. He named them "Snigglywags" - Sue LeKites
It was when I was a child in Indianapolis, Indiana and I can remember going with family to a soap box derby and they had fireworks that lit up on the ground in addition to the ones in the sky. - Judy Smith
The one when my granddaddy and my great grandmother were still alive. I was pretty little but I remember it was pretty special to me. I don't remember specifically what we did, I just remember that having them there was the best thing in the whole world. - Sherenne Smith
I used to go up to the dam when they had the fireworks up there. I helped them out with selling ice cream and popcorn up there. - Ruth Beasley
I'm usually out of the country on the Fourth of July. I will be this year too. There's sort of an anonymity that goes with that, because nobody knows it's Fourth of July in the U.S. Nobody else celebrates it with you. I remember when I was 12 and I was in Israel and it was the Fourth of July and we sang the Star Spangled Banner on the bus with Jewish people around. - April Koldyk