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4th of July views from around town:

This house puts these flags up starting on Flag Day (June14) and they fly until after Labor Day (first Monday in September).

Our neighbors decorate for every holiday. Each month the decorations depict another holiday.

Uncle Sam says, "Hi and Happy 4th of July!"

A young neighbor decorates the street with her version of fireworks.

The flag flies at the military memorial at David Cemetery, where my parents are buried.

Downtown Dayton: Holbrooke Plaza honors Richard Holbrooke, an Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nations, but achieved his greatest fame when he negotiated the Dayton Peace Accords which ended the war in Bosnia.

Downtown Dayton: the Old Courthouse.

The Dayton National Cemetery, the final resting place for over 50,000 veterans from every major US conflict dating back to the Revolutionary War. Joshua Dunbar was born enslaved in Kentucky and later in life, with the assistance of Quakers, fled Kentucky to Canada through the Underground Railroad network. He returned to the US in 1863 after the creation of the United States Colored Troops. He is the father of Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Woodland Cemetery is Dayton's most historic cemetery and like the Dayton National Cemetery is the final resting place for Revolutionary War soldiers and veterans from every major US conflict forward from that time.