It's a festive Fourth of July in South Carolina, where consumer-grade these are legal to use if you're over 16
fireworks
Sakura is the Japanese name for these flowers that bloom in spring
cherry blossom
There's plain this flavor, the epitome of plain, as well as French this & this bean
vanilla
Slides & slingbacks are styles of these strappy summer shoes
sandals
For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
A Maine festival celebrating this creature has lasted 75 summers after a money-losing start with an "all you can eat for $1" deal
lobster
This fragrant flower "of the valley" is said to have sprung from Eve's tears as she left Eden
lily
In 2020 this brand of ice cream bars celebrated 100 years of putting everyone into a better mood
Good Humor
PiƱa Colada is a flavor of this frozen 7-Eleven refresher
a Slurpee
The World War I poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers

the poppy
Summer analyst is this type of learning position at companies like Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley & can pay $40 an hour
intern
Found from Mexico to Peru, these orchids bear the name of a horrific figure from Eastern European history & the movies

Dracula orchids
McDonald's has the McFlurry, & Dairy Queen has this signature treat blended with cookies or candies
a Blizzard
The bill making this California's state sport mentions the breaks at Malibu & Trestles
surfing
This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights
"Taps"
2021 put the summer in Summer Olympics as this sport made its games debut from Tsurigasaki Beach
surfing
It's a symbol of Ukraine, where a woman told Russian troops to put seeds in their pockets, to bloom from their corpses
sunflowers
The logo of this ice cream brand includes rabbit ears & a tail on the letter "B"
Blue Bunny
If you step on this creature, you may regret it; lifeguards advise shuffling, so it'll feel the vibrations & swim away

a stingray
On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West
chuck wagons
FAF is this "Fund", what the Rev. Willard Parsons wanted to let NYC kids breathe when he took them to rural Pennsylvania in 1877
Fresh Air
Wordsworth was inspired by these golden flowers "fluttering & dancing in the breeze"
daffodils
A teen named Lina is in Tuscany for the summer in Jenna Evans Welch's novel called "Love &" this Italian ice cream
Gelato
A street in the Bronx is named for this traditional game played with a broom handle by would-be Dodgers & Yankees
stickball
To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963
Gettysburg