From US flags that surround the Washington Monument as the sun rises on Independence Day to Whitley Grawunder, 6, and Ayla Schubert, 3 who share a horse’s saddle during the 168th annual Round Top Fourth of July Parade in Texas, these pictures will impress you, because they describe perfectly how America celebrates the Fourth of July.

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US flags surround the Washington Monument as the sun rises on Independence Day
Photograph: J David Ake/AP

A cardboard cutout of Queen Elizabeth II greets people at the Avondale Estates Fourth of July parade
Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Patriotic earrings for a onlooker at the Avondale Estates Fourth of July parade
Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Nine-year-old Wyatt Stuhr waits for the start of the sixteenth annual Harper Street Parade in Newberry, South Carolina
Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Conductor Heather Pickett directs the band during an Independence Day concert by the American Legion Band of Greater Kansas City
Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

Two children ride on a mini all-terrain vehicle down Main Street in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman holds a reception marking US Independence Day in Moscow
Photograph: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Tass

One of the Avondale Estates Fourth of July parade floats
Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

Whitley Grawunder, 6, and Ayla Schubert, 3, share a horse’s saddle during the 168th annual Round Top Fourth of July Parade in Texas
Photograph: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images