However, today this story caught my eye. At Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. there is a demonstration in support of giving D.C. residents voting rights. FLAG DAY IN THE FLESH The guy in the photo is displaying his tattoo of the D.C. flag to show his sympathy with the effort. Coincidentally, President Obama is visiting Puerto Rico and thus drawing other's attention to the long festering question of the status of that island-territory and its residents' lack of representation.
If democracy in America entails, at the very least, the principle that the governed have a right to vote and to be represented in governance by those whom they have elected, then both the residents of D.C. and those in Puerto Rico certainly can use Flag Day as an occasion for their cause! And, it might be worth mentioning that when Betsy Ross stitched that first "Stars and Stripes" she was not eligible to vote.
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