LIVE: Huntington Beach Fourth of July parade

One of the nation's largest Independence Day celebrations, the 4th of July Parade in Huntington Beach, is kicking off. Watch ABC7's live coverage: abc7.la/3NRB5xG

[@riamac6010]

America! God shed His grace on thee! 🇺🇸

[@belovedsoniathewriter]

Happy Fourth of July, Huntington Beach! ❤🤍💙

[@lemontadams3029]

“The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” -H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

[@catassistant]

It was great to be part of the Host Band, very exhausting but fun!

[@eugenedimitrov]

Hey guys! What's up?Thanks for highlighting that incredible 4th of July PARADE!!! Happy Independence day to everyone!God bless the greatest city New York and Greatest America!!!❤❤❤

[@eugenedimitrov]

Huntington Beach looks so gorgeous 🤩!!!!

[@josephraymundantonio4570]

I met new people and friends

[@a1b1Bantu]

My baby still dancing! Joy to the world!

[@user-fi9tj1dq8k]

I was in the parade with surf city music school

[@robertliu907]

Falun Dafa is good!

[@mandyhuang3811]

Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance is good!

[@pattil7947]

So fun! Beautiful weather! Love it! 🎊🎉👍👋🥰Freedom reigns! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸America!

[@mikedrown2721]

I saw you on KABC 7 covering the parade 👍👏😊❤️🇺🇸

[@raymondkim8887]

52:10 Ladies and gentlemen, look who's here in the parade, say hello to Herbie the love bug. And we can see Herbie from Herbie the love bug movies. We didn't expect to see Herbie this year.

[@Bugatti-rh1ds]

Poor world 😢😢😢

[@justinreed8792]

Surf City Music School!!!

[@TheLostSoulInUniverse]

Happy Independence Day AMERICA.

[@eugenedimitrov]

Really love America!!!

[@rosiecaton1501]

What a shame to cut off the parade before the parade was finished. I wanted also to see the Jesus flag that was cut off. But I am not surprised, by ABC. We had to watch all of these different religions, except for the Christian flag, upon which this country was created. God bless America.

[@aleceffrat4783]

Actually this country was founded on freedom of religion, look it up. Basically if you weren't catholic in Catholic lands you were killed... If you weren't protestant in protestant lands you were killed. And people who felt otherwise from many different religious backgrounds came to here to escape persecution. I didn't realize that a loud obnoxious JESUS sign was a "flag".. sorry you missed these lessons in school. There is not one piece of evidence to show that this country was founded as a Christian nation... There is a ton to show it was founded to be a nation where people were free to be Christian, and otherwise. All the founding documents go very far away from religion, it was not an accidsnt or oversite.

[@timcollins3794]

Sports grand Marshall Mr. Chris cyborg.

[@eugenedimitrov]

Keep up hard work ABC7 and ABC New York! You are awesome!!!

[@jamesbond1348]

USA!! 🇺🇸 USA!! USA!! 🇺🇸

[@eugenedimitrov]

That was so fun !!!

[@jasonlou2013S]

USA USA USA!

[@anonymoushuman8443]

The Florida of California

[@yenlard6683]

And ? 😂

[@Smithsmith284]

🇺🇸🌟🇺🇸🌟❤

[@wowyummyyy]

L_I_K_E 👍 👍 👍👍 👍 💯 💯 💯 🤩 🤩🤩🤩

[@tomsimpson5317]

Lame

[@felisasininus1784]

O say can you see, by the dusk's waning light, So desperate are we, waking up from the dreaming, Drenched in violence and fear, causing perilous fights, O'er the piles of corpses, naught but pus and blood streaming! And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our ego's still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the hypocrites and the home of the crazed?

[@catassistant]

there's too many syllables in 'hypocrites' buddy

[@felisasininus1784]

@@catassistant Have you ever heard of a triplet? It's a musical term. All you need to do is make the syllables a triplet, and change the note from the original "free" one to three notes, where the first note is still the one for "free", but the 2nd and 3rd are the same note as "brave", or "crazed". It simply works.

[@catassistant]

@@felisasininus1784 I am aware of what a triplet is, I am a musician. You didn't articulate that it was a triplet well enough. No other part of the original anthem contains any triplets, the closest thing to one being 16th note check pattern #4. Even if you did make a it a quarter triplet, because of the nature of the original "free" being a held note over two beats, it does not hold the same impact or fluency as the original verse. It could be better if you instead wrote it as "land of hypocrites" or found a different replacement term.

[@felisasininus1784]

@@catassistant Well... thanks for the input. Your service to the great People's Republic is duly noted.