"What is your favorite July 4 memory?"

Photo by: Amy Simpson - "I used to live in a high rise in downtown, and it faces Lake Eola. We were all hanging on the balcony watching the fireworks … It was so magnificent." -Joanne Koch, Winter Park

Photo by: Amy Simpson - "The boat races in Sarasota … It's really a lot of fun." -Sharon Tiralosi, Longwood

Photo by: Amy Simpson - "A fireworks show; it was in South Carolina. It was in a public place, and everyone drove their car up into a parking lot, so everyone was watching it together." -Megan Tiralosi, Longwood

Photo by: Amy Simpson - "The Fourth of July thing over on the George Bush ship … in Charleston. It was very American, you know, just like that town is." -Todd Honeycutt, Orlando