Over the 4th of July holiday, I was invited to come up to photograph the internment of my best friend's grandfather at Arlington National Cemetary. The gentleman was a retired colonel in the Army and was buried on July 7th. What an amazing event. Full military honors: 21 gun salute, military band, carriage drawn funeral procession w/ riderless horse... While naturally a solomn event, it was quite riviting to see how the military honors its own. 
In the days in-between, while up in Washington, we took in the sites. All I could think was, "Wow. What a great place to be on July 4th; America's capitol, Washington DC". Jim and I woke up at 0430 to get the twilight photograph you see and it came out just spectacular. On the shot, you see the Washington Monument behind the WWII Memorial. Of course, there was a July 4th parade and thankfully, George Washington the XIIIth, decided to come and please the crowd. Twenty minutes of fireworks lit up the mall brilliantly at 2145 and the crowd was huge on a semi-rainy evening. I had my camera covered by my umbrella the whole time, lol.
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