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There were bands, floats from businesses and not-for-profit groups, and professional acts like a 20-foot-tall Uncle Sam on stilts.
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Skyline views will offer a variety of vantage points for seeing sparks fly, a live DJ will be spinning patriotic and summer hits and there will be photo ops with Uncle Sam, along with rooftop TVs streaming the show from the Esplanade.
—Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Del Mar Junior Lifeguards, Uncle Sam and city leaders, along with a Del Mar Fire Department fire truck, will then lead a parade down Coast Boulevard and back to Powerhouse Park.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
On June 18, The Baltimore Sun published a very moving and poignant editorial cartoon showing a picture of Minnesota with the state’s eastern border as the silhouette of a weeping Uncle Sam.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2025
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Skyline views will offer a variety of vantage points for seeing sparks fly, a live DJ will be spinning patriotic and summer hits and there will be photo ops with Uncle Sam, along with rooftop TVs streaming the show from the Esplanade.
—Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Del Mar Junior Lifeguards, Uncle Sam and city leaders, along with a Del Mar Fire Department fire truck, will then lead a parade down Coast Boulevard and back to Powerhouse Park.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
On June 18, The Baltimore Sun published a very moving and poignant editorial cartoon showing a picture of Minnesota with the state’s eastern border as the silhouette of a weeping Uncle Sam.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2025
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“Uncle Sam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Uncle%20Sam. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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Uncle Sam
noun
Un·cle Sam
ˌəŋ-kəl-ˈsam 
1
: the U.S. government thought of or represented as a person
2
: the American nation or people
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