“I like the crowd and everyone being together,” she said. “The weather is also nice this year.”

Betsy Hunziker came to the event from Cairo, where this year’s fireworks show was canceled because of budget concerns.

“I like it,” she said of Thomasville’s event. “There is usually just the fireworks in Cairo, but there is a lot of activities here. I’m glad we came and I think we’ll be coming back again next year.”

Members of T. L. Spence American Legion Post 31 sold hamburgers, chips and soda.

Nell Revell helped make hamburgers.

“I feel like we have freedoms here that a lot of countries do not have,” she said. “We are blessed to have these freedoms and need to keep them, today more than ever.”

Revell added that the soldiers who go to war to ensure the freedom of the American people should be praised every day.

“Freedom is something we should not take for granted,” she said.